Jean-Paul Sartre Want Quotations

If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.