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
said
All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
nice wish stage
It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
witness
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
bored awful waiting-for-godot
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
godot said ifs
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
life dance thinking
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
next firsts ends
She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.
solitude proust humans
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
mania happens things-happen
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
inspiring failure trying
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
sin born
The only sin is the sin of being born
records delirium form
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
one-day goes-on watches
My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
time feelings relief
Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.