Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

I confused things with their names: that is belief.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

It is only in our decisions that we are important.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Life begins on the other side of despair.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

We do not judge the people we love.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

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

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Quote