“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“Temporality is obviously an organised structure, and these three so-called elements of time: past, present, future, must not be envisaged as a collection of 'data' to be added together...but as the structured moments of an original synthesis. Otherwise we shall immediately meet with this paradox: the past is no longer, the future is not yet, as for the instantaneous present, everyone knows that it is not at all: it is the limit of infinite division, like the dimensionless point.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to cling to them: I escape from them through my very existence. I am condemned to exist forever beyond my essence, beyond the affective and rational motives of my act: I am condemned to be free.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“Nothingness carries being in its heart.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“Society demands that he limit himself to his function… There are indeed many precautions to imprison a man in what he is as if we lived in perpetual fear that he might escape from it, that he might break away and suddenly elude his condition.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“The flesh is the pure contingency of presence.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
“In irony a man annihilates what he posits within one and the same act; he leads us to believe in order not to be believed; he affirms to deny and denies to affirm; he creatives a positive object but it has no being other than its nothingness.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Born place: in Paris, France
Born date June 21, 1905
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― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Sky Fall
“Let's begin with an easy agreement. Before his death, your father and I were negotiating for a small area of land on our borders, near Libeth. The Carthyan land has a spring that my farmers need for their crops. Carthya has other spings nearby, so you won't miss it."
"My father wouldn't have missed it, but I would," I said, with no actual idea of what spring he meant. "It happens to be my favourite water source in all of Carthya, and I won't part with it.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, quote from The Runaway King
“I’d say Hades will convert the Underworld into an ice skating rink before the king has a personality makeover.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
“She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Season of Mists
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