5 Samuel Beckett Quotes on Self

Samuel Beckett quotes on self

25. It's to me this evening something has to happen, to my body as in myth and metamorphosis, this old body to which nothing ever happened, or so little, which never met with anything, wished for anything, in its tarnished universe, except for the mirrors to shatter, the plane, the curved, the magnifying, the minifying, and to vanish in the havoc of its images.

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

52. In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

74. I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

76. Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.