Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast — or else there is nothing more at all.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

“I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“What’s done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don’t talk about it.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

“The aim of language is to communicate, to impart to others the results one has obtained. As I talk, I reveal the situation. I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2jt-LAQ

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2jrxsV7

“Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2jKZZ9r

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterwards.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2j6ofRh

“My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think … and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it’s frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the...” tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iiy0nu

“I said to myself, I want to die decently.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iS5FQg

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you...” tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iQjpsc

“It is only in our decisions that we are important.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iPOyEt

“An individual chooses and makes himself.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iO1apC

“Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iMf4gr

“She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she...” tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iLEuTR

“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many...” tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iJo5Jp

“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.” - Jean-Paul Sartre tmblr.co/Z27Gnh2iIKqfl