Jean Paul Sartre: Citáty v angličtine (page 2)

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”

“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”

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

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

“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.”

“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.”

“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”

“Reflection poisons desire.”

“If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.”

“It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake”

“Hell is—other people!”

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

“When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.”

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”