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No Exit and Three Other Plays QUOTES

1 " At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

2 " Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

3 " The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seed of death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

4 " You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

5 " Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

6 " Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

7 " Man is what he wills himself to be. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

8 " To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

9 " I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

10 " Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them? "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

11 " It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror has descended on you, keeping us apart. And yet why should this be? What have you lived through that I have not shared? Do you imagine that my mother's cries will ever cease ringing in my ears? Or that my eyes will ever cease to see her great sad eyes, lakes of lambent darkness in the pallor of it will ever cease ravaging my heart? But what matter? I am free. Beyond anguish, beyond remorse. Free. And at one with myself. No, you must not loathe yourself, Electra. Give me your hand. I shall never forsake you. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

12 " a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

13 " Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

14 " She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

15 " Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable?...Ah,I see; it's life without a break. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

16 " And you know what wickedness is, and shame, and fear. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

17 " Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

18 " I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

19 " The words I speak are too big for my mouth, they tear it; the load of destiny I bear is too heavy for my youth and has shattered it. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

20 " You have to talk to make sure you're alive. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays