841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

If I didn’t try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.

A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself – in my mind. Painfully conscious.

We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.

The distance between the being and the conscience is the nothing.

Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

I feel there are no more perfect moments. I feel it in my legs when I walk. I feel it all the time, even when I sleep. I can’t forget it. I am dazzled, uncomfortable, I can’t get used to it.

Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation – by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain – time cures.