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
inspirational motivational encouraging
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
alternatives sun beckett
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
never-forget forget
Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
darkness knows
But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
solitude three-things inability
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
solitude proust humans
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
details born
Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?
cycling nasty ill
The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
has-beens rare-things
It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
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.