Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

The only secret people keep is immortality.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

All men desire to be immortal.