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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Existentialism, Moments
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Existence
"Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Death, Existentialism, Continuation
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

Jean-Paul Sartre
Reality, Action, Existentialism

Words are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thought Provoking, Pistols, Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Firsts, Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

Nothingness haunts Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre (1968). “Essays in Existentialism”

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea, Want, Existentialism

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Certain, Anguish
"Being and Nothingness". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Soul, Desire, Existentialism
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 10, sc. 2, 1951.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Death, Existence Of Life, Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr”, p.2, U of Minnesota Press

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Responsibility, Might, Existentialism
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.165, Open Road Media

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Human Nature, There Is No God
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.164, Open Road Media

Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Way, Existentialism, Wonder
"No Exit". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Filled Up, Existentialism, Plunge
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Destruction, Appropriate
"Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Part 3: Being-For-Others, 1943.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Too Late, Lines, Existentialism
"No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartr, Inès, act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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