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“A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

“I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.”

Jean Paul Sartre

Nausea (1938)
Source: Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!”

Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Jessica, Act 3, sc. 1
Dirty Hands (1948)

“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Nausea (1938)

“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

“[W]e only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”

Jean Paul Sartre

Miscellaneous

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit (1944)

“Some of these days,
Oh, you'll miss me honey”

Jean Paul Sartre

“… I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity…”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed… I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit

“There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.”

Jean Paul Sartre

Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions

“In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Saint Genet

77
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 2, sc. 3
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)