1. “The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
2. “It is up to you to give life a meaning.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
3. “Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
4. “I hate victims who respect their executioners.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
5. “The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
6. “To be is to do.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
7. “the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth” – Jean-Paul Sartre
8. “Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
9. “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
10. “I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
11. “Men get the war they deserve.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
12. “What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
13. “Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
14. “People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
15. “Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
16. “I do not think therefore I am a moustache” – Jean-Paul Sartre
17. “To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
18. “This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
19. “As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
20. “There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
21. “Once freedom lights its beacon in man’s heart, the gods are powerless against him.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
22. “I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
23. “I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
24. “Some of these days, Oh, you’ll miss me honey.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
25. “If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
26. “It is only in our decisions that we are important.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
27. “Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
28. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
29. “You have to aspire to everything to have hopes of doing something.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
30. “I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
31. “Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
32. “Existence is an imperfection.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
33. “Man is condemned to be free.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
34. “To choose not to choose is still to act.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
35. “You are – your life, and nothing else.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
36. “We must act out passion before we can feel it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
37. “The aim of language…is to communicate…to impart to others the results one has obtained…As I talk, I reveal the situation…I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
38. “That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
39. “I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
40. “I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions” – Jean-Paul Sartre
41. “I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
42. “I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
43. “We are our choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
44. “Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
45. “If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
46. “People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?” – Jean-Paul Sartre
47. “Commitment is an act, not a word.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
48. “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 Sartre
49. “Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
50. “Three o’clock. Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
51. “One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
52. “One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
53. “It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
54. “That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
55. “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
56. “You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
57. “When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
58. “I confused things with their names: that is belief.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
59. “To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
60. “We do not judge the people we love.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
61. “Man’s existence precedes his essence.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
62. “An individual chooses and makes himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
63. “For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
64. “Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
65. “Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
66. “I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
67. “All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
68. “If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
69. “When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
70. “Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can’t prove them?” – Jean-Paul Sartre
71. “I don’t know. Everything. Living. Smoking.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
72. “A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
73. “In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
74. “If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
75. “What is not possible is not to choose.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
76. “I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
77. “Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
78. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
79. “Words are loaded pistols.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
80. “Life is a useless passion.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
81. “Man must be invented each day.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
82. “All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
83. “Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
84. “I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
85. “What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
86. “How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?” – Jean-Paul Sartre
87. “Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
88. “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
89. “Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
90. “Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
91. “Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
92. “Life begins on the other side of despair.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
93. “Nothingness haunts Being.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
94. “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
95. “When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
96. “It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
97. “I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!” – Jean-Paul Sartre
98. “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
99. “I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
100. “The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
101. “We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
102. “I am illuminated within by a diminishing light.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
103. “Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
104. “A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
105. “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
106. “Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
107. “We make our own hell out of the people around us.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
108. “What’s done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don’t talk about it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
109. “Two people can form a community by excluding a third.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
110. “I took everything as seriously as if I were immortal.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
111. “One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
112. “Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
113. “Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
114. “I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
115. “Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
116. “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
117. “When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
118. “What is there to fear in such a regular world?” – Jean-Paul Sartre
119. “A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
120. “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 Sartre
121. “Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
122. “My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
123. “To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
124. “A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
125. “Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
126. “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 Sartre
127. “She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
128. “My memories are like coins in the devil’s purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
129. “Reflection poisons desire.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
130. “To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
131. “Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
132. “Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
133. “I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
134. “Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
135. “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
136. “This then is the age of reason.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
137. “Human feeling. That’s beyond my range. I’m rotten to the core” – Jean-Paul Sartre
138. “I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
139. “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
140. “All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
141. “Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
142. “When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
143. “I am myself and I am here.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
144. “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
145. “There it is: I am gently slipping into the water’s depths, towards fear.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
146. “Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
147. “Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
148. “Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that’s my problem!” – Jean-Paul Sartre
149. “The true sea is cold and black, full of animals…” – Jean-Paul Sartre
150. “Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
151. “I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
152. “The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
153. “The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.” – Jean-Paul Sartre