841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Man’s existence precedes his essence.

The Nausea has not left me and I don’t believe it will leave me so soon; but I no longer have to bear it, it is no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I.

Time is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I leaned back and closed my eyes. But the images, forewarned, immediately leaped up and filled my closed eyes with existences: existence is a fullness which man can never abandon. Strange.

To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.

I’m not obstinate, I’m highly strung: I don’t know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me – it’s a form of self-protection.

What’s done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don’t talk about it.

Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence.