841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.

In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one’s life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence – as not-bound to life.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache.

Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.

When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That’s what I wanted to avoid.

I wanted to be missed, like water, like bread, like air, by all other people in all other places.

From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure.

Existentialism’s first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.