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.
butterfly men silence
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
never-forget forget
Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
thanks ends dear
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
smile laughter people
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
earth cures endgame
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
darkness knows
But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
charity gestures charitable
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
loneliness lost-ones body
Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
interesting may matter
The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never.
dies
The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter.
essentials
The essential doesn't change.