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
dark forever want
I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.
compromise environment habit
Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.
silence darkness certain
Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.
god water long
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.
trying failing try-again
I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.
should-have giving joy
What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
warning adultery
Adulterers, take warning, never admit.
sad frustration wings
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
silence kind fine
Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.
loss thinking sight
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
sadness eye brain
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
life daughter horse
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.
suffering artistic conditions
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
knowledge knowing pessimism
Enough to know no knowing.