Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Trying

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

• As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Squares

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

• How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Past, Able, Alienation

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

• Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Past, Men

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

• The past is the luxury of proprietors.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Past, Luxury

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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