Jean-Paul Sartre starter sentences - put one in my ask! (Part one)
âCommitment is an act, not a word.â
âMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.â
âFreedom is what you do with whatâs been done to you.â
âIf you are lonely when youâre alone, you are in bad company.â
âWe must act out passion before we can feel it.â
âHell is other people.â
âLife begins on the other side of despair.â
âOne cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.â
âI hate victims who respect their executioners.â
âWhen the rich wage war, itâs the poor who die.â
âThree oâclock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.â
âEverything has been figured out, except how to live.â
âA lost battle is a battle one thinks one as lost.â
âOne 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.â
âWords are loaded pistols.â
âI have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.â
âAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.â
âFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.â
âWords are more treacherous and powerful than we think.â
âIâm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.â
âBetter to die on oneâs feet than to live on oneâs knees.â
âWe are our choices.â
âThere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.â
âShe believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.â
âIn love, one and one are one.â
âOnly the guy who isnât rowing has time to rock the boat.â
âExistence is an imperfection.â
âI exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.â
âTo know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.â
âSome of these days, oh, youâll miss me honey.â