Jean-Paul Sartre: Citations en anglais

Jean-Paul Sartre était philosophe, dramaturge, romancier, nouvelliste et essayiste français. Citations en anglais.
Jean-Paul Sartre: 441 citations59 J'aime

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Âge de raison

Source: The Age of Reason

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Huis clos

Source: No Exit

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

“But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Source: Nausea

“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Source: Nausea

“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

“Reflection poisons desire.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre The Transcendence of the Ego

The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

“If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 10, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

(179).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“Hell is—other people!”

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Jean Paul Sartre Huis clos

Variante: Hell is others.
Source: No Exit

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Being and Nothingness (1943)

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Variante: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

“When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Source: Le diable et le bon dieu

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Nausea (1938)