# Jean-Paul Sartre's most famous quotes

'Hell is other people', 'Existence precedes essence', 'Man is condemned to be free': Sartre's most quoted lines, from Nausea to The Words, with the work they come from.

- 8 votes · 14 items
- Jul 9, 2022 · monsieurglobetrotteur
- https://even.best/en/l/4637/jean-paul-sartre-s-most-famous-quotes

## Top 14

1. **Hell is other people.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — No Exit (1944), Garcin, final scene.
2. **One can no more hate men than love them.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nausea (1938), to the Self-Taught Man.
3. **You are nothing other than your life.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No Exit (1944), Inès to Garcin.
4. **I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Dirty Hands (1948), Hoederer.
5. **The world is iniquity; if you accept it you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Devil and the Good Lord (1951), Heinrich.
6. **I was horribly natural. I never got over it.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Words (1964).
7. **Existence precedes essence.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946).
8. **Man is condemned to be free.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946).
9. **Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nausea (1938).
10. **A few hours or a few years of waiting are all the same once you have lost the illusion of being eternal.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Wall (1939).
11. **Only actions decide what we wanted.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No Exit (1944).
12. **The more absurd life is, the less bearable death.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Words (1964).
13. **She believed in nothing; only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Words (1964), about his grandmother.
14. **We were never freer than under the German occupation.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'The Republic of Silence', collected in Situations III.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.