Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. Jean-Paul Sartre on age
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre on alone
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. Jean-Paul Sartre on alone
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best. Jean-Paul Sartre on best
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. Jean-Paul Sartre on death
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. Jean-Paul Sartre on dreams
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. Jean-Paul Sartre on experience
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. Jean-Paul Sartre on failure
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. Jean-Paul Sartre on fear
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. Jean-Paul Sartre on finance
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. Jean-Paul Sartre on freedom
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. Jean-Paul Sartre on god
God is absence. God is the solitude of man. Jean-Paul Sartre on god
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. Jean-Paul Sartre on god
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. Jean-Paul Sartre on god
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. Jean-Paul Sartre on god
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. Jean-Paul Sartre on history
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. Jean-Paul Sartre on intelligence
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre on life