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Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.


Jean-Paul Sartre

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CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.
And you will see my children; your smile will...
BENNY BELLAMACINA I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and y...
STEVE MARABOLI Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it h...
ALAN ALDA “A genuine smile comes from deep down in your soul. It is based on the pure joy, peace and happine...
STEPHANI MCLELLAN What’s the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag...
GEORGE HENRY POWELL I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
YANI TSENG I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is...
SHANNON L. ALDER every body thinks im this cheerful littel person with a wonderful smile but the truth is i hide behi...
AMBER FAITH HUN Your heart swallowed me like a well and I will never be able to climb out. I fell. I fell into your ...
EMALYNNE WILDER I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
THOM GUNN What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, ...
GEORGE ASAF What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit...
GEORGE ASAF (PSEUDONYM OF GEORGE HENRY POWELL) The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're ...
ROBERT ALAN I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of t...
JOHN PIPER They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am ...
TABITHA SUZUMA It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled a...
CAROL BIRCH How can you stand without a spine ? Turn your fucking back on me ? Yet I will walk away with a smile...
OCEANO GRUPO Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER THERESA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I'm thinking about my Angel again. Thinking about looking deep into your beautiful and remarkable ey...
NICK MANSILLA I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I s...
LEO TOLSTOY My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. At least ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man...
DWAYNE JOHNSON Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so...
C.S. LEWIS I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for Go...
MOTHER TERESA I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time ...
MOTHER TERESA I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought ...
ALI SMITH You’re doing it again,” he said.
“Doing what?” I asked, wondering if I had done somethi...
MARY TING I hoisted myself onto my elbows. "Yeah, well, if I ever come back as a Grigori, then I'll kick your ...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Someday you will smile at me And I will smile back at you, You’re going to thank me For loving you...
ALON CALINAO DY Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes.
Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ...
JOSé N. HARRIS Give your best smile to your child and be assured your child will smile for life
SOTONYE ANGA It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a f...
ROBERT NEWTON PECK I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I coul...
AKSHAY VASU To me you are my best friend, That made me smile once again, So I never want it to end, So I’ll ne...
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w...
SARAH DESSEN Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew wha...
JOHN GREEN My friends, tonight we bring you something entirely different. Something special. The poets will res...
CHARLES GRANT I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister cal...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE I had never been in love with anyone before in my life, but I knew the feeling when it came bursting...
NINA JEAN SLACK I like your glasses," he said. "I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don't smile at ever...
RAINBOW ROWELL Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ...
MARY ROACH You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall ne...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY My words control your body and your mind like a symbiot im a phenominon i had to interpose
NOBLE DA GENIUS I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in th...
VICTORIA BECKHAM I put my hand up and he took my hand. I'd never had a handshake like that one. He smiled down at me ...
HELEN NILES And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will mo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was blac...
ISSA RAE Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We knew a game was going to come down to a pitch pass sometime. Paul and I would go out in the stree...
BUTCH PEDERSEN You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap.
"Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile a...
RAINBOW ROWELL Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care...
THICH NHAT HANH People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and let my bod...
IAN THORPE when I pass away I don't want you to endure in the pain of my lost. I want you to remember me for th...
ROSA M. BETANCES I love… I love black women.” My first reaction was to laugh and then smile. “You see I love th...
ELLA DECEMBER Your smile breaks my heart,
And your laughter burns my skin,
And if I had to tell you how ...
MARGO T. ROSE I was at my locker in West Palm pretty upset with the way things were going, and in walked Paul Snyd...
DALE MURPHY I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think p...
ARIZONA MUSE I ask God to bind my life to your life so that my mind will be one with your mind," I repeat the wor...
AMY A. BARTOL Coming into my return, I knew that anything (that) happened during the course of my career that invo...
KAYLA BURT Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When yo...
SIMONE ELKELES Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. ...
RICHELLE MEAD He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you
bring it?"

"My list? Heavens, no. What ca...
JULIA QUINN Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mi...
SRI CHINMOY Freedom continues to be the thing I prize most in the world. Of course, this has led me to drink win...
PAULO COELHO As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achiev...
VIJENDER SINGH Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smil...
KENDAL ROB I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books,...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And if I show you my dark side will you still hold me tonight and if I open my heart to you and show...
PINK FLOYD Cory always had an answer for everything. We will miss your cheeky face, your wit, your laugh and yo...
CRAIG JOHNSON Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces
KEVIN JARED HOSEIN I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and m...
HENRY ROLLINS I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL Somewhere along the line I decided that if I had something or did something that maybe it wasn't so ...
JAN DENISE I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it sup...
JENNY HAN When SOmeNODy BreAks YOur HEart To PIecEs And You Cry YOur Eyes OUt..... YOu See nO way Out To SmiLE...
MONIKA SINGH Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wron...
ASHLY LORENZANA With each word, your tenderness grows, tearing my fears apart. And that laugh, that wrinkles your no...
FRANK SINATRA You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove tha...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I had good memories from there. That inspired me. I just like to keep the good thoughts in my head. ...
MARDAN MAMAT Why Should You Smile? It makes you attractive, it changes your mood, it relieves your stress and hel...
PERRYSEIDER Ember shook her head and looked down at me, her expression caught somewhere between a smile and a gr...
JULIE KAGAWA I knew I had to step it up. My teammates looked for me, I got open shots and I knocked them down. I ...
EDWIN ORTIZ I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love...
TAYLOR SPREITLER And so I, my love, am going to the very center of the earth. I am going to the point that is closest...
EVGENIJ VODOLAZKIN I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is he...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perditi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Then my cell phone buzzes again. I can’t quite get it out of my pocket because my arm is so bloody...
CARRIE JONES Your precious smile and your sparkling blue eyes brightens my stay in life at every moment that I am...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' h...
KIM HARRISON Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted he...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I�...
NEIL GAIMAN

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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is—other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy i...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I hate victims who respect their executioners.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is happy agony.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it mu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Commitment is an act, not a word.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp,...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a l...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Existence precedes and rules essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every man is condemned to freedom.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In love, one and one are one.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You are -- your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will beco...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to ref...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had rise...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . bu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There ar...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Aunque me quisiera con toda su alma, sería igualmente un amor de muerta.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I ta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass itto...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at on...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of anoth...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ni siquiera sufrí; me sentía vacío.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is what he wills himself to be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Don’t be afraid; I’ll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, an...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: There...you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror,my dear, and yo...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE L'enfer, c'est les autres [Hell is other people]
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: What's the matter?

ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? Whe...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore.Your silence c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as wel...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you sa...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That sta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's al...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might ha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemn...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are loaded pistols
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it&...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE آن جا که تمام جامعه بد است، فقط می توان در مبارزه شرکت ک�...
SARTRE JEAN-PAUL Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE ¿Quieres creer en mí? Te querría entonces más que a mí mismo.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE