Famous Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.”

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

“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)”

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

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

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

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

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Acting is happy agony.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Hell is other people.

Words are loaded pistols.

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

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.