Sartre quotes

Hell is other people. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are our choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence precedes essence. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Every moment counts, every word counts, every action counts. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are responsible for our own lives. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To be is to do. – Jean-Paul Sartre

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning outside of the meaning we give it. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The only way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I am my choices, my actions define me. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is not something that anyone can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. – Jean-Paul Sartre

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. – Jean-Paul Sartre

In love, one and one are one. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together? – Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are loaded pistols. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Lovers never fail each other, for lack of love, but because they don’t recognize the essence of each other; as soon as they do recognize it, they have no further reason to separate. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To choose is also to affirm. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Every man has a right to decide his own destiny, and in this judgment no government has the right to interfere. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I am the one who chooses; I alone decide whether I am going to attach myself to the view of myself which my inborn situation seems to prescribe for me. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me. – Jean-Paul Sartre

In the fields, one can feel time move – the air goes with it. I suppose if one could be truly aware of the present moment in one’s life, one would be absolutely happy. Such a state of total happiness might be called ecstasy. – Jean-Paul Sartre

When one is alone at night in the depths of these woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. Every leaf seems to speak. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves. – Jean-Paul Sartre

A man is what he wills himself to be. – Jean-Paul Sartre

What is important is not what others think of me, but what I think of myself. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is always responsible, always involved, always free. If man is not responsible for his sins, then who is? – Jean-Paul Sartre

The past is no more than the past; its problems are a spectacle, are only seen in the rear view mirror. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I carry the weight of indifference in the world of indifference. – Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – Jean-Paul Sartre

People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in a thousand mirrors. They are in little bits of other people. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To think is to act. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Life begins on the other side of despair. – Jean-Paul Sartre

One cannot be united with others if he is not not kind with them. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Every individual has the freedom to change at any moment. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Words have a weight to them, and it is the words that we use to define ourselves that can shape our reality. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I am what I am not yet. – Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no other solution than to accept the present situation and to continue living right up till the end. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The other is hell, but the other is also heaven. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To be human is to be thrown into the world with all its ambiguity and complexity. It is up to us to give it meaning. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is a series of moments, and we have the power to choose how we want to spend those moments. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The past is not dead. It is not even past. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are not victims of circumstance but creators of our own destinies. – Jean-Paul Sartre