Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.”

“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”

“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”

“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”

“Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.”

“One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”

“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”

“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”

“The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.”

“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”