Samuel Beckett Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Love You, Ifs

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Collected Poems in English and French”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Names, Evening

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• God is love. Yes or no? No.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, God, Yes Or No

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.32, Faber & Faber

• Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Loneliness, Despair

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Lick your neighbor as yourself!

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Self Love, Neighbor

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “Endgame, a Play in One Act: Followed by Act Without Words, a Mime for One Player”

• What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Moving, Soul

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.92, Faber & Faber

• Love requited is a short circuit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Affection, Short Circuit

• That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Loneliness, Men

  Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Stydenstricker Buck, Ivan Alekseevič Bunin (1971). “Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Buck [and] Ivan Bunin”

• To what will love not stoop!

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Disgrace, Stoops

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Women, House

• Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Horse, Years

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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