Top 72 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

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

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.