top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Existence quotes
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."
"When we are not sure we are alive."
"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have."
Explore more quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite."
"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."
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."
"Every man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?"
"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
bottom of page