Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Eye, Hands

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Acts 8 & 9, June 7, 1951.

• Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Eye, Ruins, Faces

• I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nature, Eye, Escaping

• I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Eye, Ears, Body

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2010). “The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

• My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sleep, Eye, Flesh

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2010). “The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

• In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Eye, Order

• What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Father, Eye, Thinking

  "Orphée Noir". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface, 1948.

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