Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• We must act out passion before we can feel it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Passion

• I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

• Life is a useless passion.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Passion, Useless, Life Is

• [M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The Existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Passion, Men

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.31, Open Road Media

• L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Passion, Men, Useless

  'L'Être et le nèant' (1943) pt. 4, ch. 2

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