Jean-Paul Sartre

"Existence precedes essence"

"We are our choices"

"Man is condemned to be free"

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you"

"Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make, so get to it"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion"

"Hell is other people"

"I am my choices"

"Bad faith is lying to oneself"

"Anguish is the vertigo of freedom"

"We are left alone, without excuse"

"The best way to understand a man is to watch his actions"

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself"

"Every consciousness seeks to perpetuate itself"

"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself"

"I wished to have the kind of love for my wife which she deserved, but I was not capable of it"

"In any case, you must not confuse the right to criticize with the spirit of criticism"

"Facticity is what we are"

"I now understand what liberty is"

"Nausea is the experience of absolute freedom"

"Writing is for me a form of prayer"

"The writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution"

"To make myself an object, to make myself passive, is to lie"

"Every event has causes which preceded it"

"As if it were easy to know oneself"

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek"

"The role of the intellectual is to speak truth and expose lies"

"Art is not beautiful in itself; beauty is relative to our perspective"

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious"

"The passion to create is stronger than the passion to know"