Jean-Paul Sartre starter sentences - put one in my ask! (Part one)
“Commitment is an act, not a word.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”
“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”
“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.”
“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one as lost.”
“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.”
“Words are loaded pistols.”
“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”
“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”
“Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.”
“I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
“Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.”
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
“In love, one and one are one.”
“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”
“Existence is an imperfection.”
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”
“Some of these days, oh, you’ll miss me honey.”
