Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckettwas a French-Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth13 April 1906
CityFoxrock, Ireland
CountryIreland
time thinking cybernetics
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
memories thinking mind
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
change changed has-beens
To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
alternatives sun beckett
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
years long answers
How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
butterfly men silence
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
long waiting forever
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
time
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
never-forget forget
Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
hands feelings absurdity
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)
expression firsts language
It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
use
There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
heart dripping
Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
long answers long-life
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.