Jean-Paul Sartre quote about suicide from Nausea - I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way. In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden.
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“ I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way. In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden. ”
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Nausea
Topic suicide blood
Date 1938
Language English
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Note Translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander
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“Je rêvais vaguement de me supprimer, pour anéantir au moins une de ces existences superflues. Mais ma mort même eût été de trop. De trop, mon cadavre, mon sang sur ces cailloux, entre ces plantes, au fond de ce jardin souriant.” Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée

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Jean-Paul Sartre quote about suicide from Nausea - I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way. In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden.
Jean-Paul Sartre quote about suicide from Nausea - I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way. In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden.