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
Samuel Beckett quotes about
thanks ends dear
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
smile laughter people
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
rain house midnight
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
soul able stories
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.
mistake my-mistakes
My mistakes are my life.
earth cures endgame
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
darkness knows
But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
charity gestures charitable
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
loneliness lost-ones body
Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
friendship two sorrow
Two in distressmake sorrow less.
interesting may matter
The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never.
dies
The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter.
essentials
The essential doesn't change.
goes-on ends endgame
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.