841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.