Jean Paul Sartre: Trending quotes (page 7)

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

“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.”

“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!”

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

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

“Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.”

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

“I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.”

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

“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.”

“it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.”

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

“… I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity…”

“Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.”

“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.”

“A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.”

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

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

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