Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Life begins on the other side of despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is a useless passion.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are loaded pistols.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We are condemned to be free.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

One always dies too soon—or too late.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

— Jean-Paul Sartre