Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

Hell is other people.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity - it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

All human actions are equivalent . . . and . . . all are on principle doomed. . . .

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.