Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

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.

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.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.