Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul-Charles-Aymard Sartrewas a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 June 1905
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Jean-Paul Sartre quotes about
left
Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?
simple sometimes truth-is
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
lonely philosophy loneliness
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
philosophical men choices
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
choices our-choices
We are our choices.
death existence-of-life existentialism
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.
thought-provoking pistols existentialism
Words are loaded pistols.
love judging people
We do not judge the people we love.
love inspirational undone
In love, one and one are one.
silence consequence
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
sky silence solitude
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.
beautiful may chaos
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
opposites ideas want
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
want nausea existentialism
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.