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Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett quotes about silence

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

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I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. 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
Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps. Samuel Beckett
Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into..."
POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man..."
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else..."
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and..."
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you..."
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

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