Jean-Paul Sartre

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A man rarely feels like laughing alone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is happy agony.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All I really want to do is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

Jean-Paul Sartre