Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”.
He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.
Born: June 21, 1905,France
Died: April 15, 1980,France
We do not judge the people we love.
Words are loaded pistols.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Hell is—other people!
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
