Jean-Paul Sartre
» Action » “All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
» Decisions » “It is only in our decisions that we are important.”
» Despair » “Life begins on the other side of despair.”
» Existence » “One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.”
» Fascism » “Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”
» Food and Eating » “To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”
» Freedom » “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
» Generosity » “The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
» Generosity » “Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.”
» Hell » “Hell is other people.”
» Humankind » “Man is a useless passion.”
» Life and Living » “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
» Life and Living » “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
» Literature » “If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.”
» Loneliness » “If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
» Meaning of Life » “Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”
» Passion » “We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
» Poverty and The Poor » “When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.”
» Respectability » “I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
» Responsibility » “I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world… in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.”
» Responsibility » “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
» Time and Time Management » “Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
» Victory » “Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
» Words » “Words are loaded pistols.”
