Quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free.

Oysa sevmiÅŸti o, yaÅŸamak istemiÅŸti ve kendini ölürken görmüÅŸtü; bunlar bir insan?n insan olmas?na yeter.

Zaten sözcüklerden gayr? ne var ki...

J'ai voulu que les moments de ma vie se suivent et s'ordonnent comme ceux d'une vie qu'on se rappelle. Autant vaudrait tenter d'attraper le temps par la queue.

el infierno son los otros.

I am on the same plane specific object and free subject but never the two at the same time and always the one haunted by the Other.

Fabrikalar, k?rsal alan? mahvediyordu ve büyükbabam, soyut bilimlerde yaln?zca soyutluÄŸu seviyordu.

They explain the new by the old—and the old they explain by the older still, like those historians who turn a Lenin into a Russian Robespierre, and a Robespierre into a French Cromwell: when all is said and done, they have never understood anything at all.

Duc în spate o soarta prea grea, pentru tinereÅ£ea mea!

A maioria das vezes, por não se ligarem a palavras, meus pensamentos permanecem nebulosos. Desenham formas vagas e agradáveis, submergem: esqueço-os imediatamente.

Yo no tengo tribulaciones, dispongo de dinero como un rentista, no tengo jefe, ni mujer, ni hijos; existo, eso es todo. Y esta tribulación es tan vaga, tan metafísica, que me da vergüenza.

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

Those who hide their complete freedom from themselves out of a spirit of seriousness or by means of deterministic excuses, I shall call cowards; those who try to show that their existence was necessary, when it is the very contingency of man's appearance on earth, I shall call stinkers. But cowards or stinkers can be judged only from a strictly unbiased point of view.

Arriving in Paris, many English and Americans are surprised to find us less thin than they imagined. They have seen the elegant dresses that appear to be new, the suits which, from afar, still seem fashionable; rarely have they encountered that paleness of face, that bodily decline that normally signifies starvation. Their solicitude, since it has been deceived, turns to rancor: I believe that they are dismayed not to find us conforming to the pathetic image they had formed of us in advance.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered.

The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has an infinite interest in himself and his destiny. Secondly, the existent individual always feels himself to be in Becoming, with a task before him;

My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." – Jean-Paul Sartre

El hombre no es nada más que su proyecto, no existe más que en la medida en que se realiza, no es, por lo tanto, más que el conjunto de sus actos, nada más que su vida.

The only being which can be called free is the being which nihilates its being.

The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning." – Jean-Paul Sartre

If someone read every book that's ever been written all he could when he was done is he'd read a lot of books.