Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes (125 Quotes)

Man is a useless passion.

Hell is other people.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing its up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift ... that's nausea.

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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

Acting is happy agony.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.