Human life begins on the far side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “La vie humaine commence de l'autre côtè du dèsespoir. Human life begins on the far side of despair.”

It's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness.

Jean-Paul Sartre · Roquentin in the novel that made Sartre's name; the sentence goes on that there is a moment at the start when you have to jump across a precipice.

I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “Je suis condemnè á être libre. I am condemned to be free.”

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “Quand les riches se font la guerre ce sont les pauvres qui meurent. When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”

More Hope Quotes

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All the little children who are now growing up in this tormented world may find themselves not the victors nor the vanquished in the fleeting triumphs of one country over another in the bloody turmoil of destructive war, but the heirs of all the treasures of the past.

Winston Churchill · Congress of Europe, the Hague, 7 May 1948

Every child begins the world again.

Henry David Thoreau · From Walden.

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“Human life begins on the far side of despair.”

“It's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness.”

“I am condemned to be free.”

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”

“We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.”

“All the little children who are now growing up in this tormented world may find themselves not the victors nor the vanquished in the fleeting triumphs of one country over another in the bloody turmoil of destructive war, but the heirs of all the treasures of the past.”

“Every child begins the world again.”