841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.