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Existentialist Inspirational Quotes (359)

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The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
Martin Buber
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Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere I am unwanted.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
Martin Buber
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Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery.
Martin Buber
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The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
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It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain cracked quality.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It pains me to speak of God in the third person.
Martin Buber
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This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy we feel that our existence is justified.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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