841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Ama bardağımın dibinde biram ılıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katışıksız acım, ayıbalığı gibi, hem bir yığın et hem gepgeniş bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.