Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

"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."

"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."

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

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"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."

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

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

"Hell is other people."

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

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

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

"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

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

"Commitment is an act, not a word."

"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."

"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."

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

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