Jean Paul Sartre Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jean Paul Sartre quotes, Jean Paul Sartre sayings, and Jean Paul Sartre proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die. Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre
Introspection is always retrospection. Jean-Paul Sartre
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. Jean-Paul Sartre
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. Jean-Paul Sartre
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being like a worm. Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothingness haunts Being. Jean-Paul Sartre
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic. Jean-Paul Sartre
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. Jean-Paul Sartre
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. Jean-Paul Sartre
The past is the luxury of proprietors. Jean-Paul Sartre
The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe. Jean-Paul Sartre
Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way. Jean-Paul Sartre
There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs. Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes. Jean-Paul Sartre
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations. Jean-Paul Sartre
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.  Jean Paul Sartre
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die. Jean Paul Sartre
But the being which is thus revealed to me is its being-for-others. That this confusion may lead to absurdities can be clearly seen in connection with the famous problem of "inverted vision." Jean-Paul Sartre
The subject of every play ought to be that men change. Jean-Paul Sartre
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Jean Paul Sartre
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Jean Paul Sartre
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean Paul Sartre
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is not the sum of what he has, but the totality of what he does not yet have and what he might have. Jean Paul Sartre