I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Topics: Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

Hell is other people.

Hell is other people.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a talent; my sole...

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a talent; my sole...

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a...

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a...

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but...

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but...

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do...

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do...

We do not judge the people we love

We do not judge the people we love

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give...

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give...

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one...

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one...

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not...

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not...

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of...

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of...

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.