Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning a priori. Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

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

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Hell is other people.

When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.

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

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.