841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Neither sad nor gay is the desert – a boundless waste of sand under a burning waste of sky.

The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is ‘afraid of being afraid’; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.

You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Man must be invented each day.

Nothingness carries being in its heart.

Man is condemned to be free.

I haven’t any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that’s all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.