Jean-Paul Sartre

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#murder #age

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#mundane #the-flies #zeus #life

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#been #done #you

J'ai envie de partir, de m'en aller quelque part où je serais vraiment à ma place, où je m'emboîterais... Mais ma place n'est nulle part; je suis de trop. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existentialism #men

Tu ești pentru mine relația necesară. Toți ceilalți sunt întâmplători. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#love #passion #relationship #love

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#people #vomit #love

The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#definition #existence #finality #life #death

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#age

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #humanity #liberty #mankind #self-determination