841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Introspection is always retrospection

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.