Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Freedom
Life begins on the other side of despair.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Resolve, Happiness, Perseverance, Difficulties, Despair, Endurance, Adversity
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Decisions
Friendship doesn’t exist to criticize but to inspire confidence.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Possibilities
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Thinking
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Existence
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Life and Living, Live
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Wisdom, Aging, Adversity, Age, Time Management
Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Violence
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Defeat
Words are loaded pistols.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Topics: Words
In love, one and one are one.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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