841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.