"Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, no...
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
More Jean-Paul Sartre quotes
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
"Death is a continuation of my life without me...
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
"If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is ...
"There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
"Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you b...
"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
"Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
"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.
"For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be somethin...
"I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter of words; I am b...
"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.