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

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

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

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

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

Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre


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

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

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

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

Existence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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