“I am passive when I undergo a modification of which I am not the origin; that is, neither the source nor the creator.  Thus my being supports a mode of being of which it is not the source.

Passivity is a doubly relative phenomenon, relative to the activity of the one who acts and to the existence of the one who suffers…It is a relation of one being to another being and not one of one being to a nothingness.

One can conceive of a creation on condition that the created being recover itself, tear itself away from the creator in order to close in on itself immediately and assume its being…

What can the relativity of being mean for an existent if not that the existent has its own being in something other than itself.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre