“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
“It is senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
“Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.”
“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.”
“I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.”
“The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.”
“From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to cling to them: I escape from them through my very existence. I am condemned to exist forever beyond my essence, beyond the affective and rational motives of my act: I am condemned to be free.”
“There ought to exist for the human being, in so far as he is conscious of being, a certain mode of standing opposite his past and his future, as being both this past and this future and as not being them.”
"To be conscious is to be in a certain relationship with being, a relationship that is at once an understanding of being and a non-relation to being.” "I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy.”
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
“It is senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
“Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.”
“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.”
“I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.”
“The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.”
“From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to cling to them: I escape from them through my very existence. I am condemned to exist forever beyond my essence, beyond the affective and rational motives of my act: I am condemned to be free.”
“There ought to exist for the human being, in so far as he is conscious of being, a certain mode of standing opposite his past and his future, as being both this past and this future and as not being them.”
"To be conscious is to be in a certain relationship with being, a relationship that is at once an understanding of being and a non-relation to being.” "I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy.”
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."