What did Sartre mean when he said that "h**l is other people"?

Question

What did Sartre mean when he said that "h**l is other people"?

Answer 1

Our suffering usually comes with relating to others.

Answer 2

that other people suck.

Answer 3

I have no clue who 'Sartre' is, nor have I heard this quote before, and finally, I do not like answering peoples' homework for them, but I'll throw in my two cents...

He most-likely means that all problems a person faces, pain loathing hatred sorrow humiliation and more, are all created from interaction with other human beings. Mankind is built upon a continually-repeating process of either stomping one person into the ground to get ahead in your own life, or being the person stomped into the ground as a result of someone else's rise in society. No matter who you were in this doesn't matter. You either feel the sorrow of poverty and loathing of those who got ahead while leaving you behind.. Or you eventually feel sorrow in either sympathy for those people, or being lonely because you left all others behind in your striving for wealth.

You cannot feel jealousy if you have nobody to be jealous of. You can't be stripped of your possessions if there's nobody to take it from you.

Kind-of a paradox in-that the good things in life are brought with the company and help of other people, but those people will inevitably cause you grief by either betraying you, or leaving you in one way or another, thus causing you sorrow.