Jean Paul Sartre: Frases en inglés (página 6)

“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”

“I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.”

“Death is a continuation of my life without me…”

“I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.”

“An individual chooses and makes himself.”

“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”

“Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.”

“Nothingness haunts being.”

“The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.”

“A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness… and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.”

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.”

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.”

“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea”

“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

“I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.”

“It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?”

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

“I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency…”