If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Hell is other people.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
We do not judge the people we love.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Words are loaded pistols.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
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.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
