Quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre

All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I don't need God in order to love my neighbor.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.