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Action(s)
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Authors & Writing
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
-Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, October 22, 1964
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Books
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Creation
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I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Decisions
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Despair
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Discovery
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fascism
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fate & Destiny
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Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Food
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Freedom
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Generosity
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
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God
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I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.
-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words (New York: George Braziller, 1964), 102, 252-253.
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The existentialist
-Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism, 1946
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Hell
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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!
(spoken by character Garcin) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/sart.html
-Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit, 1945
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Hell is other people.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Humanity
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Man is a useless passion.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
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Loneliness
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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Love
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Passion
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Poverty
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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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Books by and about Jean-Paul Sartre