Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Samuel Beckett Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Oh it is not without scathe that one is gentle, courteous, reasonable, patient, day after day, year after year.
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
What counts is to be in the world, the posture is immaterial, so long as one is on earth. To breathe is all that is required.
We go wherever the flesh creeps least, said Mercier. We dodge along, hugging the walls, wherever the shit lies least thick.
He imagines that when I see him indefatigable I'll regret my decision. Such is his miserable scheme. As though I were short of slaves!
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.
And Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
I thought much about myself. That is to say I often took a quick look at myself, closed my eyes, forgot, began again.
Wherever nauseated time has dropped a nice fat turd you will find our patriots, sniffing it up on all fours, their faces on fire.
My dear Tom,
Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this, saying it's me?
Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.
Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.
Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.
The churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger
pestling the unalterable
whey of words
love love love thud of the old plunger
pestling the unalterable
whey of words
What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.
you don't feel a mouth on you, you don't feel your mouth any more, no need of a mouth, the words are everywhere, inside me, outside me...