Top 100 Quotes About Sartre
#1. Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are
Van Morrison
#3. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.
Michel Houellebecq
#4. Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really ... I keep it out of print.
Mordecai Richler
#5. Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.
Per Petterson
#6. Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.
Margaret Atwood
#7. Idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Eula Biss
#8. I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Thom Gunn
#9. In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'
Claude Simon
#10. In Sartre's hell, there are no torture devices, no devils. Just the INABILITY to become the person that you are.
Keshni Kashyap
#11. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.
Adam Alter
#12. Hell is other people," said Jean-Paul Sartre. "Hell is other real people,' is what he should have said.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.
Evgeny Morozov
#15. Mazda paid little attention to Sartre.
"What's the matter? Afraid that you'll lose to a man? A mere mortal?"
This caught Mazda's attention.
"If you don't come and get me, I'll tell everyone that I beat a god. A giant pussy of a god.
Dylan Callens
#16. When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.
Jerry Hall
#17. To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda
#19. Some 1,300 years later, the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre metaphorically spat on the notion of communal bliss by declaring, "Hell is other people.
Eric Weiner
#20. While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.
Eugenie Brinkema
#22. 'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
Rob Sheffield
#23. Freya led Sartre to the first tent, near the water. Sartre pushed back the flap so that they could both enter. Two bushy-bearded gentlemen dressed as Vikings, one on top of the other, kissed hungrily at each other, making slurping spaghetti sounds.
Dylan Callens
#24. Sartre claimed that hell is other people," I said. "He never saw no TV game show," Hawk said.
Robert B. Parker
#25. I could not help but comment to my distinguished audience that every question asked about Sartre concerned his work, while all those asked about Beauvoir concerned her personal life.
Simone De Beauvoir
#26. No." Tommy turned and headed toward the door. As he reached it he turned and said, "I'm not fucked." The Sartre reader looked up from his book and said, "We all are. We all are.
Christopher Moore
#27. It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
Gore Vidal
#28. Sartre snickered. "Are you trying to make love to that thing, or put gas in it?" He stepped out of the car and flipped the heavy metallic switch, causing the machine to vibrate to life. Odin grunted a thank you as he squeezed the handle, "This liquid stinks.
Dylan Callens
#29. Of course Sartre and Beauvoir were not alone in being seduced by Communism. Many of the Auden generation, on both sides of the Channel, had become infatuated with the socialist 'paradise', and remained blind to its atrocities.
Carole Seymour-Jones
#30. The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
Stokely Carmichael
#31. (About Sartre ... )
His death does not separate us. My death will not bring us together again. That is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long.
Simone De Beauvoir
#32. A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of the incarnations of problematism and of the ambiguity of contemporary thought (for Man does seem, to the contemporary mind, to be ambiguous).
Jean-Paul Sartre
#33. I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.
Orhan Pamuk
#34. As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women?
Richard Yates
#35. Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends
Cheryl Strayed
#36. Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.
Kenan Malik
#38. A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
Craig Ferguson
#39. as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What
Eula Biss
#40. I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too 'Jean-Paul Sartre' and intellectual in my head. And it's like a Kafka novel in there, things get nuts. Then I have to remind myself to get out and I will go and play ice hockey with my friends.
Josh Peck
#41. This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.)
Christopher Panza
#42. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Lewis Hyde
#43. Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place.
She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.
Craig Ferguson
#44. I believe it was Sartre who said, "Hell is other people," and I suspect he wrote that after spending an hour with overinvolved parents who won't stop yelling at coaches, instructors, or crying four-year-olds who really just want a snow cone.
Jenny Lawson
#45. People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
#46. Time to wake to a wholesome diet--Marx and Engels, Andy Warhol and Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouak and the Grateful Dead, Sartre and Gide--it was a regimen of semen in the sixties and we never even knew we were choking. [109]
Claire Robson
#47. It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#48. Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote, "Evil is not an appearance," adding that "knowing its causes does not dispel it." Sartre
Sue Klebold
#49. Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'.
Iris Murdoch
#50. One can be very fertile without having to work too much. Three hours in the morning. Three hours in the evening. This is my only rule. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Mason Currey
#51. Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.
Michel Onfray
#52. No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost -
Gillian Flynn
#53. Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.
Jenny Offill
#54. Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.
Ravi Zacharias
#55. Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'
Drew Gilpin Faust
#58. Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#59. So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#60. Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#61. To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#62. Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#63. Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#65. At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#66. The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#67. I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can't imagine any more of them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#68. I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#69. Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
toward himself to recover his inner being.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#70. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#72. People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#73. I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#74. I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#75. And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#77. Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?
Hugo: No.
Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.
Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#78. Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
Jean-Paul Sartre
#80. Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#81. I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#82. The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre
#84. If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#85. The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#86. You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself - in my mind. Painfully conscious.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#87. There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#88. It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#89. Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#91. I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#93. One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#94. Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#96. Nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#99. No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#100. I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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