Jean-Paul Sartre

“We do not judge the people we love.”

“Words are loaded pistols.”

“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

“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.”

“It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.”

“There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.”

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

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”

“All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

“Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.”

“Ama bardağımın dibinde biram ılıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katışıksız acım, ayıbalığı gibi, hem bir yığın et hem gepgeniş bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?”

“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”

“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”

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

“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”

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

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.”

“People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.”