841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

What makes or breaks a man is not what people think of him, but what he thinks of himself.

I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

It’s just what people do when they’re getting old, when they’re sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Words There is no good father, that’s the rule. Don’t lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Those who wants to be loved, must want the freedom of the other, because love emerges from it, if I subject it, it becomes an object, and from an object I can not receive love.

There is something I longed for more than all the rest – without realizing it properly. It wasn’t love, heaven forbid, nor glory, nor wealth. It was... anyway, I had imagined that at certain moments my life could take on a rare and precious quality.

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that’s my problem!

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.