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
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.
life death birth
The end of a life is always vivifying.
silence blind
POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.
life-is habit succession
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
has-beens rare-things
It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
perseverance trying failing
Try again. Fail again. Try better.
originality said
All has not been said and never will be.
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.
breathing greedy given
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
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.
misery enough pauses
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
garden circles atheism
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.