Jean Paul Sartre Quotes

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Annie Cohen-Solal

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 which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre