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
useless want rams
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.
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.
dies
The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter.
essentials
The essential doesn't change.
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
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.
shining looks goes-on
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
warning adultery
Adulterers, take warning, never admit.
grieving tragedy goes-on
I can't go on. I'll go on.
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?