Quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

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

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

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

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

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

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.