Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

• He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sky, Silence, Solitude

• I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Solitude, Littles, Purity

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

• I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Suicide, Ideas, Solitude

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

• God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Solitude, Absence

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

• God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Evil, Miracle

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 10, sc. 4, 1951.

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