Quotes By Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

“Death is a continuation of my life without me…”

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”

“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”

“All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”

“One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.”

“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”

“There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

“In love, one and one are one.”

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

“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.”