Sartre Being And Nothingness Quotes & Sayings

Nothingness haunts Being. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever. — Meg Myers

I love you enormously. I'm spending a little time away from you - quite absurd and contingent. I would so like to see you, my stubborn little thing, and tell you my stories and hold your hand. You are my love, you good little being. Far from you I measure the nothingness of the flesh, and I am not having much fun. — Jean-Paul Sartre

anyone can be cynical, but it takes guts to be optimistic. — 5 Grays Publishing

We didn't have time to go tobogganing, because we didn't have the toboggan. — Justin Bieber

This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.) — Christopher Panza

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis. — Rafael Nadal

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him. — C.S. Lewis

The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well. — Gabrielle Aplin

Jace Herondale plays the piano very well."
"And he knows it."
"That sounds like a Herondale." Tessa laughed. — Cassandra Clare

Being and Nothingness by Sartre. — E. Lockhart

I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I'd dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing. — Michael Gira

Movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I wanted to be a voice that reflected experience and the world I lived in. So I knew in 1972 that to do this I would need to write very well and more individually than I had ever written before. — Bruce Springsteen

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

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being. — Jerry Hall

you are owned by your shit, which is owned by your debt, which is either owned or profited by a corporation. So you work for a corporation, everything you buy comes from a corporation, everything you watch is produced by a corporation, and the debt you owe is held by a corporation. Ah — MJ DeMarco

Most of the books I have are indicators of my insecurity. I really wanted to be an intellectual. I really wanted to understand Sartre. I thought that was what made people smart. I have tried to read Being and Nothingness no fewer than twenty times in my life. I really thought that every answer had to be in that book. Maybe it is. The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better. I underline profusely but I don't retain much. Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush. That is enough. I glean what I can. I finish some of the unfinished thoughts lingering around in my head by adding the thoughts of geniuses and I build from there. There are bookmarks in most of the denser tomes at around page 20 to 40 because that was where I said, "I get it." Then I put them back on the shelf. — Marc Maron

People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control. — George Carlin

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0. — Robin Sharma