841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

Hell is for other people.

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.