Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)


Jean-Paul Sartre -
- The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Closed Doors (1944)
- Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
- A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Jean-Paul Sartre -
- In love, one and one are one.

Jean-Paul Sartre -
- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre -
- To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean-Paul Sartre -
- We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness (1943)
- Existence precedes and rules essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre -
- Everything has been figured out except how to live.