Life begins on the other side of despair.

Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Topics: Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Words are loaded pistols.

Words are loaded pistols.

Hell is other people.

Hell is other people.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against...

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against...

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is...

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is...

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...

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 do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in...

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in...

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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...

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Acting is happy agony.

Acting is happy agony.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.