Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
We do not judge the people we love.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
