Top 72 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

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.

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.