20 Samuel Beckett Quotes on Beckett

Samuel Beckett quotes on beckett

1. Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?

2. Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

6. Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

10. But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

19. Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart's content, the fog won't lift.

22. I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

23. They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance

24. All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing.

27. How tell what remains ? But it's the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming ? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.

29. I didn't feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn't say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.

37. Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.

46. And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

49. All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

50. It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

57. What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

58. I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

63. There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

65. Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

78. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.

80. How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.