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, nothing else but what his life is.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.
L'existentialiste, au contraire, pense qu'il est très gênant que Dieu n'existe pas, car avec lui disparaît toute possibilité de trouver des valeurs dans un ciel intelligible; il ne peut plus y avoir d...
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, h...
Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.
Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
Man is free rather than man is freedom.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea
Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her soft, beautiful eyes. when she lo...
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
We do not judge the people we love.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.