Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

What is done from necessity involves neither censure nor applause

Does our hand show in this?

People are decisions and actions.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.