“I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.”

—  Jean Paul Sartre , book Nausea

Diary entry of Friday (2 February), concerning a card game
Nausea (1938)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge …" by Jean Paul Sartre?
Jean Paul Sartre photo
Jean Paul Sartre 321
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

Related quotes

Jean Paul Sartre photo
Oprah Winfrey photo

“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Miguel de Unamuno photo

“Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IX : Faith, Hope, and Charity

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde photo
Cher photo
Robin Hobb photo
Samuel Butler photo

“Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.

Bob Dylan photo

“Everything passes,
Everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Related topics