Top Jean Paul Sartre Quotes

He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back it was to...

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being whi...

If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.

When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.