Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Spiritual, Witty

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Existentialism, Moments

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Freedom, Responsibility

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

• Life begins on the other side of despair.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

• If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Lying, Drinking

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

• It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Thinking, Generosity

• I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Hate, Order

  "The Devil and the Good Lord" by Jean-Paul Sartre, (Act 11, sc. 2), 1951.

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Exercise, Generosity

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

• We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Games, Would Be

• What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, World, Labor

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.39, Routledge

• It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Blood, Shedding Blood

  "The Devil and the Good Lord" by Jean-Paul Sartre, (Act 1), 1951.

• 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.

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.133, New Directions Publishing

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