841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.