841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can’t prove them?

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Everything happens to every man as though the whole human race had its eyes fixed upon what he is doing and regulated its conduct accordingly.

You are – your life, and nothing else.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. “Excuse me, sir,” he said at the end of a class, “could anyone claim that we don’t exist?” The Baboon said no. “Goghito,” he said, “ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.

When I can’t see myself in the mirror, I can’t even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken: I staggered under the weight of my responsibility.