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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Silence, Consequence

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

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Attitude, Freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Peaceful, What Is Life, Interruptions

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Giving, Up To You, Life Has No Meaning
"Existentialism and Human Emotions".

We are our choices.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Choices, Our Choices

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Rocks, Guy, Sailing
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Stills, Ought, Knows
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.32, Open Road Media

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Jean-Paul Sartre
Knowing, Being Lied, Lied

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Beautiful, May, Chaos

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

Jean-Paul Sartre
People, Hell

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Purpose, Action

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Two, People, Community

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Commitment, Perspective, Worry

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Consciousness

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Struggle, Men, Essence
Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Rybalka, Michel Contat, Richard C. McCleary (1985). “The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

Existence is an imperfection.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Imperfection, Existence
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Life, Philosophical
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Simple, Sometimes, Truth Is

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Freedom, Responsibility
Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Book, Heart, Empty

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Fake People, Hate, Judging
Les S‚questr‚s d'Altona (The Condemned of Altona, 1960) act 1, sc. 1

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Learning, Growth

your judgement judges you and defines you

Jean-Paul Sartre
Judging, Judgement, Define You

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Witty, Time, Humorous
La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi"

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