Jean-Paul Sartre: Citations en anglais

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”

“We are our choices.”

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”

“God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

“Words are loaded pistols.”

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

“Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“In love, one and one are one.”