Jean Paul Sartre Quotes

“The letters I had just inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:past present

“I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don’t want to think any more, I am because I think that I don’t want to be, I think that I... because... ugh!”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:thought existence

“We can not . . . perceive and imagine simultaneously; it must be either one or the other.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

topic:imagination

“Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:living

“The true nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, and all that was not present did not exist.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:present existence

“Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:eyes

“My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:thinking existence

“I have crossed seas, left cities behind me, followed the course of rivers or plunged into forests, always making my way towards other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and never was I able to turn back, any more than a record can...”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:way travel

“But the images, forewarned, immediately leaped up and filled my closed eyes with existences: existence is a fullness which man can never abandon.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:existence

“All is full, existence everywhere, dense, heavy and sweet. But, beyond all this sweetness, inaccessible, near and so far, young, merciless and serene, there is this . . . this rigour.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:existence

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