Jean Paul Sartre Quotes

“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:love

“Life has a meaning if we choose to give it one. One must first act, throw one's self into some enterprise.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:life action meaning

“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:life time

“I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:life death loneliness

“I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:death freedom loneliness

“at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:happiness adventure

“As if there could possibly be true stories; things happen one way and we tell about them in the opposite sense.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:truth

“Then time began to flow again and the emptiness grew larger.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:time

“I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:time

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:time

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