Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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

“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.”

“Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.”

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

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.”

“We are our choices.”

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”

“I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, Iam still choosing.”

“We make our own hell out of the people around us.”

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.”