Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Struggle, Men, Essence

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Rybalka, Michel Contat, Richard C. McCleary (1985). “The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

• You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Suffering, Rhythm, Like Me

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.151, New Directions Publishing

• 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

• She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Singing, Suffering, Sorrow

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

• I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Suffering, Tears

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

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