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
generous thieves
For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.
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.
let-me-go you-let-me-go let-me
Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
silence looks
Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
inspirational motivational encouraging
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
pain doors long
...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on
tone helping conversation
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
perception experience vulgar
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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.
expression firsts language
It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
teaching learning faults
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
bears grudge whisky
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.