841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.