Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

It is my belief that books are living things.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.