841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Lucien thought with bitter pleasure that his parents found him looking fine. “I don’t exist.” He closed his eyes and let himself drift: existence is an illusion because I know I don t exist, all I have to do is plug my ears and not think about anything and I’ll become nothingness.

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water’s depths, towards fear.

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one’s own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?

They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don’t hurry, they take their time, and they are quite right. Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency...

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don’t want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

Every sound comes into my ears dirty because you’ve heard it on the way.

The truth is that I can’t put down my pen: I think I’m going to have the Nausea and I feel as though I’m delaying it while writing. So I write whatever comes into my mind.