Quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people.

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

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

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Man's existence precedes his essence