63 Quotes About Sartre

So I was a poodle of the future; I made prophecies.

Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.

When you live alone, you even forget what it is to tell a story: plausibility disappears at the same time as friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness. But on the other hand, everything improbable, everything which nobody would ever believe in a cafe, comes your way.

Cada día te pareces un poco más al cadáver que serás y yo te amo siempre.

—Pero podría muy bien pensar en ti sólo como en una virtud abstracta, una especie de límite. Puedes agradecerme que recuerde cada vez tu cara.

why distort a past that can no longer stand up for itself?

You have to talk to make sure you're alive.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines say what this man is before he dies, or what mankind is before it has disappeared.