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151 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Jean-Paul Sartre

Famous As: Novelist, Playwright, & Philosopher
Born On: 1905
Died On: 1980
Born In: Paris, France
Died At Age: 74

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, more famously known as  Jean-Paul Sartre, was an illustrious French philosopher, literary critic, playwright, political activist, and novelist. He played a prominent role in the philosophy of phenomenology and existentialism. He was also considered to be a dominant figure in 20th-century French Marxism and philosophy. His writings, thoughts and works also included critical theory, literary studies, post-colonial theory and sociology. In 1964, he was honoured with the ‘Nobel Prize in Literature,’ but he refused to accept it. We have compiled some famous, notable, interesting, powerful, and thought-provoking quotes and sayings by Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre which have been excerpted from the vast sea of his works, thoughts, short-stories, books, screenplays, plays, critical essays, philosophic essays, other writings and life. Zoom through the quotes and thoughts by Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre which are quoted widely.

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

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

Jean Paul Charles Aymard 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.

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 Charles Aymard Sartre
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Hell is—other people!

Hell is—other people!

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. 
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
We are our choices.

We are our choices.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

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

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
You are -- your life, and nothing else.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Words are loaded pistols.

Words are loaded pistols.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
In love, one and one are one.

In love, one and one are one.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
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.

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.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
Man is what he wills himself to be.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre