Jean-Paul Sartre Existence Quotations

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

Existence is prior to essence.

Existence is an imperfection.

Existence precedes and rules essence.