Quotes of Jean Paul Sartre - somelinesforyou

“ We are our choices. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Life begins on the other side of despair. ”

- 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

“ If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Hell is other people. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Life begins on the other side of despair. ”

- 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

“ Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you are not worth the truth. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Commitment is an act, not a word. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources? ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ You are your choices. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ I confused things with their names: that is belief. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Torture is senseless violence, born in fear.... We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Torture is senseless violence, born in fear.... We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ I confused things with their names: that is belief. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Two people can form a community by excluding a third. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre
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