Quotes About Being

I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my throat, it caresses me- and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

J'existe, c'est tout.

know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there's quite enough existence as it is.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie.

Nothingness carries being in its heart.

I am, I am, I exist, I think therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think anymore.

To exist is simply to he there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anything from them.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action… [L'être humain] n'existe que dans la mesure où il se réalise, il n'est donc rien d'autre que sa vie

to do something is to create existence

I know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there's quite enough existence as it is.

The distance between the being and the conscience is the nothing

Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.

We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.

Faire, et en faisant se faire et n'être rien que ce qu'on fait

An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.

To exist is to create your own life.

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.

The flesh is the pure contingency of presence.

I exist because I think … and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment–it's frightful–if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.

L'existence précède l'essence

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