Hell is Other People 1.25” Button Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit Quote Pin Badge Play

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Hell Is Other People
Misanthropic Slogan Button
This listing is for a 1.25" (3.175 cm)
button with the phrase ‘Hell is Other People,’ a quote from the play No Exit by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
This quote by Jean-Paul Sartre is one of his most famous. It comes at the close of the play No Exit (Huis Clos, in French) written in 1943. No Exit depicts the arrival of three characters – Garcin, Estelle, and Inez – in hell – which happens to be a drawing room. As the characters struggle to understand what sin has led them to hell, and what their punishment may be, they quickly gather that there is no torturer. No executioner. No flames to burn their souls eternally. It’s just the three of them, trapped in a deadlock. The other characters in the room are the punishment, as it were. The full version of the quote highlights this illustration of Sartre’s existentialist philosophy:
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All those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE!”
Hell Is Other People (aka Strangers From Hell) is also a 2019 South Korean television series starring Im Si-wan and Lee Dong-wook.
A phrase with fresh meaning in 2020, when people all over the world are commanded by law to stay far away from each other, when the innocent presence of another human can cause your death.
Wear this button while working from home, while walking late at night when no one is around, or while nailing some doors shut.
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