Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Important, Library

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1966). “Words”

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Philosophical, I Have Learned

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

• There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Lasts, Shelves

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi"

• All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Men, Mirrors

• I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Heart, Empty

• Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Writing, Psychology

• There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Mean, Doe

• I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Looks, Workmen

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