No Exit Quotes

• Man is what he wills himself to be.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Tranquility, Life Death

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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• There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.

  Keith Lehrer

  Circles, Exit, Belief

  Keith Lehrer (1978). “Knowledge”, Oxford University Press

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• You are -- your life, and nothing else.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fire, People, Farce

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Garcin, act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

  Alan Alda

  People, Heaven, Tasks

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• Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Pain, Agony

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1946). “The flies (Les mouches): and, In camera (Huit clos)”

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• As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Mean, Flames

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• Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi"

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Opposites, Ideas, Expecting Something

  Jean Anouilh, Ugo Betti, Jean-Paul Sartre (1958). “Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre”

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• It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mouths, Hell

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? 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

  Sleep, Waiting, Needs

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Exit, Entrances

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• Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

  Dov Davidoff

  Mirrors, House, Mind

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 20, 2011

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• Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  Song: Series of Dreams

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• I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, World, Exit

  "A short biography of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)" by Patrick Chastenet, translated by Lesley Graham,

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• With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

  John Cusack

  War, Knowing, Opposites

  "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• After Brexit referendum, our country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living standards are growing. The public is split.The government is in disarray. Ministers have made it clear they have no exit plan, but are determined to make working people pay with a new round of cuts and tax rises.

  Wes Streeting

  Country, Cutting, Government

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• There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

  Jill Stein

  People, Debt, Exit

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

  Audre Lorde

  Country, Fear, Exit

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.329, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Reality, Order

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

  William Hague

  Country, Burning, Exit

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• Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, Night, Men

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