Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."

"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."

"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."

"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck."

"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."

"Hell is other people."

"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."

"I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."

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

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."

"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."

"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."

"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."

"Commitment is an act, not a word."

"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."

"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."

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

"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."

"The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best."

"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

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

"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."

"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

"Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."

"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."

"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."

"We do not judge the people we love."