A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is happy agony.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
