Jean-Paul Sartre

All I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything comes to us from others. To be is to belong to someone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre