Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Top 25 Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes and Sayings
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
You are - your life, and nothing else.
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.
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
We are our choices.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Hell is - other people!
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give "life" a meaning.
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.