Jean-Paul Sartre

“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”

“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”

“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.”

“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”

“Acting is happy agony.”

“The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.”

“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”

“To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

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

“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”

“I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.”

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

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”

“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”

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

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”