Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Good Night, Sleep, Desire

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soul, Desire, Existentialism

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 10, sc. 2, 1951.

• And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Giving, Desire

• This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Desire, Quality

• I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Desire, May

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