Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Being is only Being for Dasein.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

The living moment is everything.

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

The moment is the sole reality.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

Progress means nothing to presence.

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

The mountains were there and so was I.

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.

Life is only available in the present moment.

In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.