Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Nausea.
Madness Quotes
Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it left anymore. (1.10)
Isolation Quotes
I live alone, entirely alone. I never speak to anyone, never; I receive nothing, I give nothing. (3.7)
Appearances Quotes
I can understand nothing of [my] face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been tol...
Time Quotes
I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. (7.19)
Life, Consciousness, Existence Quotes
I jump up: it would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. (22.34).
Mortality Quotes
The truth stares me in the face: this man is going to die soon. (16.95)
Memory and the Past Quotes
Not a memory: an implacable, torrid love, without shadow, without escape, without shelter. (16.44).
Sex Quotes
I do not pay her: our need is mutual. (3.9)