Jean-Paul Sartre's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 8 votes from people: Hell is other people. · One can no more hate men than love them. · You are nothing other than your life.. (Updated Jul 9, 2022.)
'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.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 14
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Hell is other people.
No Exit (1944), Garcin, final scene.
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One can no more hate men than love them.
Nausea (1938), to the Self-Taught Man.
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3
You are nothing other than your life.
No Exit (1944), Inès to Garcin.
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4
I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows.
Dirty Hands (1948), Hoederer.
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The world is iniquity; if you accept it you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951), Heinrich.
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I was horribly natural. I never got over it.
The Words (1964).
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Existence precedes essence.
Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946).
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Man is condemned to be free.
Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946).
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
Nausea (1938).
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10
A few hours or a few years of waiting are all the same once you have lost the illusion of being eternal.
The Wall (1939).
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11
Only actions decide what we wanted.
No Exit (1944).
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The more absurd life is, the less bearable death.
The Words (1964).
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She believed in nothing; only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
The Words (1964), about his grandmother.
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14
We were never freer than under the German occupation.
'The Republic of Silence', collected in Situations III.
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