841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.