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
creation
What was God doing with himself before the creation?
fate too-late existentialism
Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!
literature form bother
You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
grieving tragedy goes-on
I can't go on. I'll go on.
extinction next landscape
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
habit
Habit is a great deadener.
details born
Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?
mentor want matter
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.
fun time-flies having-fun
How time flies when one has fun!
cycling nasty ill
The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
enough
VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.
has-beens rare-things
It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
guarantees dull lightning
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
saving-up age said
How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.