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
life hate men
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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.
time damnation monsters
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
heart language has-beens
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
loneliness lost-ones body
Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
waiting motto my-motto
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
friendship two sorrow
Two in distressmake sorrow less.
beautiful failing
Fail, fail again, fail better.
eye self tears
I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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.
eye sorrow tears
The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
thinking impossible speak
But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
life death dying
Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.