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“He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

Death

“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”

Jean Paul Sartre The Flies

Act 1
The Flies (1943)

Fear

“I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.”

Jean Paul Sartre

Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

Heart

“I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

Thinking

“An individual chooses and makes himself.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Nothingness haunts being.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness

Part 1, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)

“A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness… and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.”

Jean Paul Sartre

Source: Existentialism Is a Humanism, lecture http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm (1946)
Context: What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards. If man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself. Thus, there is no human nature, because there is no God to have a conception of it. Man simply is. Not that he is simply what he conceives himself to be, but he is what he wills, and as he conceives himself after already existing – as he wills to be after that leap towards existence. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.

World

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.”

Jean Paul Sartre
Women , Waiting

“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

Jean Paul Sartre
Life

“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

Love , Men , People

“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

Men , God , Truth

“I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Wall

Source: The Wall

Way

“It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency…”

Jean Paul Sartre
Feeling , Sense