Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?'

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

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.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

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.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The meaning of life is life.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

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

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

I'm a man at the end of the day.

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.