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...
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?
But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must le...
You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
We do not judge the people we love.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea
Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
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...
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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.
The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact,...
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism