841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.