Jean-Paul Sartre

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”

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

“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”

“The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports h...”

“In love, one and one are one.”

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.”

“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit...”

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

“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)”

“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, mono...”

“There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about wi...”

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”

“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”

“In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the...”