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Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett quotes about thinking

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

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The search for myself is ended. I am buried in the world, I knew I would find my place there one day, the old world cloisters me, victorious. I am happy, I knew I would be happy one day. But I am not wise. For the wise thing now would be to let go, at this instant of happiness. And what do I do? I go back again to the light, to the fields I so longed to love, to the sky all astir with little white clouds as white and light as snowflakes, to the life I could never manage, through my own fault... Samuel Beckett
I began playing with the cries, a little in the same way as I had played with the song, on, back, on, back, if that may be called playing. As long as I kept walking I didn’t hear them, because of the footsteps. But as soon as I halted again I heard them again, a little fainter each time, admittedly, but what does it matter, faint or loud, cry is cry, all that matters is that it should cease. For years I thought they would cease. Now I don’t think so any more. I could have done with other... Samuel Beckett
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. Samuel Beckett
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line. Samuel Beckett
Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Dance first. Think later. Its the natural order! Or at least..."
Dance first. Think later. Its the natural order! Or at least its mine anyways. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. Samuel Beckett
ESTRAGON: Do you think God sees me? VLADIMIR: You must close your eyes. Estragon closes his eyes, staggers worse. ESTRAGON: (stopping, brandishing his fists, at the top of his voice.) God have pity on me! VLADIMIR: (vexed). And me? ESTRAGON: On me! On me! Pity! On me! 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
Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Dance first, think later."
Dance first, think later. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?"
We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this. VLADIMIR: That's what you..."
ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this. VLADIMIR: That's what you think. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "[A]ll I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante."
[A]ll I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante. Samuel Beckett

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