Jean Paul Sartre Quotes

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

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:time

“There was some point in being afraid before, while one still had hope.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

topic:fear hope

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast—or else there is nothing more at all.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:heart existence

“suppose I covered my eyes . . . and refused to look at you, all that loveliness of yours would be wasted on the desert air.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

topic:beauty

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:reason weakness existence

“a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:change

“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:society

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:society loneliness

“I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:work

“I am going to read Eugénie Grandet. It isn't that I get any great pleasure out of it: but I have to do something.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:reading

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