Jean-Paul Sartre

Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation – by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain – time cures.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Time is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To choose not to choose is still to act.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not judge the people we love.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre