Quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

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

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

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

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

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.