Best No Exit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

“To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears. You can nail up your mouth, cut your tongue out - but you can't prevent your being there.”

Hell No Exit Sarter

Book:No Exit and Three Other Plays

Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

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

Hell Plays Sartre No Exit

Book:No Exit and Three Other Plays

Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

“Bullshit!” Thor shouted at the stage, causing the actor playing Estelle to look at the audience. Thor added, “Just leave. Be done with this nightmare of a play! Goddamn cowards!”

Thor No Exit

Book:Operation Cosmic Teapot

Source: Operation Cosmic Teapot

“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.”

People Needs Remember Hell Fire Torture Farce No Exit

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”

Thinking Ends Refuse Tranquility Life Death Hamper No Exit

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Hell Mouths No Exit

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Men World Convinced Exit Accompany No Exit

Author:Jacques Ellul

“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.”

People Wells Earth Life Is Heaven Hell Tasks Exit No Exit Paul Sartre

Author:Alan Alda

“Afraid is a country with no exit visas.”

Country Fear Exit Visa No Exit

Book:The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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

Country Building Burning Exit Euro Burning Buildings No Exit

Author:William Hague

“I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.”

Exit Entrances No Exit

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“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.”

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

People Millions Students Debt Locked Loan Exit Predatory Student Loan No Exit

Author:Jill Stein

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

Want Book Time Three Drink Late Humorous Philosophical Witty Beer Clock Too Late Nausea No Exit

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man is what he wills himself to be.”

Men No Exit

Book:The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays

Source: The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

No Exit

Book:No exit, and three other plays

Source: No exit, and three other plays

“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.”

Needs Heart Mean Suffering Flames All Alone Suffering Of Others No Exit

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“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”

Thinking Dream Eye Series Exit Tempo No Exit

Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

Ifs Needs Should Reason Waiting Sleep Break Minutes Bother Disagreeable Sleepy Why Bother Why Now No Exit

Book:No exit, and three other plays

Source: No exit, and three other plays

“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.”

Mind Enough Would Be Pain Hurt Existentialism Agony Caress No Exit

Book:The flies (Les mouches): and, In camera (Huit clos)

Source: The flies (Les mouches): and, In camera (Huit clos)

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

Want Made Ideas Bears Opposites Expecting No Exit Expecting Something

Book:Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre

Source: Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”

Ifs Way Needs Should War Acting Knowing Trouble Opposites Cameras Strategy Rolling Exit No Exit

Author:John Cusack

“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.”

World Reality Able Order Situation Struggle Oppression Liberation Perceive Oppressed Exit Pedagogy Of The Oppressed No Exit

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“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.”

Men Years Mean Ends Purpose Night Natural Cities Technology Creation Television Cold Presses Ancient Absence Heat Mechanism Artificial Shells Exit Adapted Pierce Overpopulation Milieu No Exit

Author:Jacques Ellul

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

Belief Circles Exit No Exit

Book:Knowledge

Source: Knowledge