Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicalfreedomphilosophy I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking. Jean-Paul Sartre smokingknows A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing. Jean-Paul Sartre impressinvolvedmen The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being. Jean-Paul Sartre holesheartfacts Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act. Jean-Paul Sartre choicespathmen Man's existence precedes his essence Jean-Paul Sartre human-natureessencemen The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up. Jean-Paul Sartre blowdreamworld I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency. Jean-Paul Sartre revelationsminutesasking An individual chooses and makes himself. Jean-Paul Sartre individual When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre politicswarpeace I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicalabstractmurder With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all. Jean-Paul Sartre optimismrightsmen The past is the luxury of proprietors. Jean-Paul Sartre luxurypast 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 existentialismlinestoo-late Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicaltrustintelligent In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre waitinghomeyears I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death. Jean-Paul Sartre streetsgardenwhite So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break. Jean-Paul Sartre waitingsleepneeds You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely. Jean-Paul Sartre teaseusedifs Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave. Jean-Paul Sartre citiesmenfall
