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Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett quotes

Irish Playwright, Writer April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989

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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of..."
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. Samuel Beckett
No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last. Samuel Beckett
Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me. Samuel Beckett
What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better than God, in terms of what he is not. But my ideas on this subject were always horribly confused, for my knowledge of men was scant and the meaning of being beyond me. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."
Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But..."
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. Samuel Beckett
...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 Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was."
To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "The essential doesn't change."
The essential doesn't change. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was."
To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "I've got my faults, but changing my tune isn't one of them."
I've got my faults, but changing my tune isn't one of them. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Hell must be like... reminiscing about the good old days when..."
Hell must be like... reminiscing about the good old days when we wished we were dead. Samuel Beckett
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little. Samuel Beckett

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