Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker questions the nature of love in an unconventional or absurd context.
In plain terms
Is love really love even in strange places?
What can you take from it?
Love is often questioned when it defies norms.

Where it applies

  • relationship questioning
  • moral uncertainty
  • intimacy

Putting it to work

  • examining values
  • accepting diversity
  • self-doubt

Questions to consider

  • What defines true love?
  • How much do norms shape love?

Another view

It relies on shock value rather than deep insight.

More from Samuel Beckett

  1. Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

    Permalink to quote #41
  2. And once again I am I will not say alone, no, that's not like me, but, how shall I say, I don't know, restored to myself, no, I never left myself, free, yes, I…

    Permalink to quote #43
  3. The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

    Permalink to quote #40

Related quotes

  1. Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

    Saul BellowSaul Bellow quote #1
  2. Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

    Jose MartiJose Marti quote #1
  3. I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in…

    James Anthony FroudeJames Anthony Froude quote #1