Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Describing a place that feels boundless, non-physical, and undefined.
In plain terms
This place has no end, no walls, and feels like air.
What can you take from it?
Some experiences resist clear description.

Where it applies

  • dreams
  • isolation
  • mental state

Putting it to work

  • use metaphor
  • accept vagueness

Questions to consider

  • How do you describe the indescribable?
  • What does air-like mean?

Another view

It leaves the reader without a concrete picture.

More from Samuel Beckett

  1. Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to m…

    Permalink to quote #84
  2. Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story…

    Permalink to quote #86
  3. Ah if only this voice could stop, this meaningless voice which prevents you from being nothing, just barely prevents you from being nothing and nowhere, just e…

    Permalink to quote #83

Related quotes

  1. That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such - be it so; but I love, and …

    Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh quote #1
  2. Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

    W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields quote #1
  3. Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouee.

    Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais quote #1