Jean-Paul Sartre
20 quotations
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Hell is other people.
Man is a useless passion.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Words are loaded pistols.