Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift… that’s nausea.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything is silent again: but it isn’t the same silence. It’s raining: tapping lightly against the frosted glass windows; if there are any more masked children in the street, the rain is going to spoil their cardboard masks.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I’d rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons – than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism’s first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: “Thou shalt not lie,” there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

For a moment I wondered if I were not going to love humanity. But, after all, it was their Sunday, not mine.

Jean-Paul Sartre