Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Men, Light

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

• Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Heart, Reason

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

• There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fear, Heart, Secret Places

  Jean Anouilh, Ugo Betti, Jean-Paul Sartre (1958). “Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre”

• As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Mean, Flames

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Heart, Empty

• Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Heart, Worms

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nice, Heart, Nests

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1946). “The flies (Les mouches): and, In camera (Huit clos)”

• Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Distance, Heart, Nausea

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

• The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Facts, Holes

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.125, Routledge

• Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Heart, Men

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1951.

• I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Men, Sides

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 6, sc. 6, 1951.

• To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
  Render a kiss or blow
  But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
  Offer all the hatred in your heart
  For you were slaves and he enslaves you

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Kissing, Blow

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