Jean-Paul Sartre

I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Introspection is always retrospection.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that’s my problem!

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre