Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes about Life

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Life begins on the other side of despair.

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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.

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.

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.