QUOTES BY JEAN PAUL SARTRE

“Existence precedes essence.”

“Hell is other people.”

“Man is condemned to be free.”

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

“I am my choices.”

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

“To do is to be.”

“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”

“Commitment is an act, not a word.”

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

“We are our choices.”

“To choose is always to choose the next step along the way.” SINGLE MOTHER QUOTES TO SON

“Only the individual can judge their existence.”

“Man is a useless passion.”

“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”

“Man lives his life feeling that he is the creator of his actions and is constantly frustrated by the realization that he cannot be fully conscious of that which drives him to act.”

“Words are loaded pistols.”

“L’homme est condamné à être libre.”

“In the end, we are all alone and no one can help us in the choices we must make.”

“When the rich and powerful steal from the poor and powerless, it is called business. When the poor and powerless retaliate, it is called violence.”

“The object of art is to give life a shape.”

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we are affected by it.”

“It is the responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

“One is still what one is going to cease to be.”