841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity...

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

Man must be invented each day

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.