Sartre Quotes

Hell is other people. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence precedes essence. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are our choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To do is to be. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell, of course, is a state of mind. – Jean-Paul Sartre

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities. – Jean-Paul Sartre

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man feeling the ground sway beneath him and the wind pass by. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Sartre Quotes part 2

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. – Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre

When you’re being cheated, you have to act as if you trust. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is a useless passion. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The world is a hostile place. It wants you to fail, call you a loser. You have to fight that every day. – Jean-Paul Sartre

An individual’s success, or failure, depends upon their choices and actions. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are our choices, and we have to take responsibility for them. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are condemned to be free, for we never cease to be responsible. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To be is to do. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not what I am, and I am what I am not. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is not something you are given, but something you take. – Jean-Paul Sartre

In order to be free, we must assume full responsibility for our actions. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is a being who makes himself by what he has chosen to be. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are never more free than when we become conscious of our freedom. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are all alone in this world, but we are all not alone in our loneliness. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I am the sum total of my actions, of my choices, of my thoughts. – Jean-Paul Sartre

In order to change, we must first accept ourselves for who we are. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your existence is an act of rebellion. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Our existence is but a brief flicker in the vast abyss of time, and yet it is our burden to find meaning in this fleeting moment. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are what we do, and what we do not do. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Inherent in our freedom is the responsibility to create our purpose and find meaning in our existence. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The only way to truly know ourselves is through our actions and choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are all masters of our destiny, for we have the power to choose our own path. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Our lives gain meaning not through the expectations of others, but through our own authentic actions. – Jean-Paul Sartre

To be alive is to constantly strive for freedom, for autonomy, for the ability to shape our own lives. – Jean-Paul Sartre

We are not defined by our past, but by the choices we make in the present. – Jean-Paul Sartre