Jean Paul Roux Quotes

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom - ah the soul-destroying boredom - of long days of mild content. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

An individual chooses and makes himself. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Others quite new when covered with ice, all white, all throbbing, are like swans about to fly, but the earth has already caught them from below. They twist and tear themselves from the mud, only to be flattened out a little further on. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. ~ Jean Paul

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ~ Jean Paul

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words ~ Carole Seymour-Jones

For all those fellow commuters, he was the reader, the bizarre character who each weekday would read out, in a loud, clear voice, from the handful of pages he extracted from his briefcase. ~ Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my throat, it caresses me- and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ~ Jean Paul

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ~ Jean Paul

To exist is to create your own life. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application. ~ Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Everything is silent again: but it isn't the same silence. It's raining: tapping lightly against the frosted glass windows; if there are any more masked children in the street, the rain is going to spoil their cardboard masks. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

How nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

The rain has stopped, the air is mild, the sky slowly rolls up fine black images : it is more than enough to frame the perfect moment ; to reflect these images, she would cause dark little tides to be born in our hearts. I don't know how to take advantage of the occasion : I walk at random, calm and empty, under this wasted sky. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Suspicious: that's what they were, the sounds, the smells, the tastes. When they ran quickly under your nose like startled hares and you didn't pay too much attention, you might believe them to be simple and reassuring, you might believe that there was real blue in the world, real red, a real perfume of almonds or violets. But as soon as you held on to them for an instant, this feeling of comfort and security gave way to a deep uneasiness: colours, tastes, and smells were never real, never themselves and nothing but
themselves. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people at breakfast. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier

I am illuminated within by a diminishing light. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A sky full of silent suns. ~ Jean Paul

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. ~ Jean Paul