Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

The meaning of life is life.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Human life must be some form of mistake.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.