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
truth swim speak
What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.
world creation all-time
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
dies
The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter.
mind body retired
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
essentials
The essential doesn't change.
littles talent
I had little talent for happiness.
hands holding-hands pauses
Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.
too-late waiting-for-godot moments
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
prayer poetry paradigm
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
years fire gone
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
time language failing
Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
goes-on ends endgame
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
sunshine trying together
We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench
sea mind beacons
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.