Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit Quotes

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

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.

Hell is—other people!

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.

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