Samuel Beckett Quotes - Page 10

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• The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night
  wipes them out.

  Samuel Beckett

  Winter, Night, Drawing

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.56, Grove Press

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• 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

  Mother, Rain, Thinking

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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”

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• I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

  Samuel Beckett

  Real, Dark, Phrases

  Samuel Beckett (1965). “Three Novels: Molloy. Malone Dies. The Unnamable. [Translated from the French].”

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• You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.

  Samuel Beckett

  Literature, Form, Bother

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.150, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Happiness, Speak

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.263, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

  Samuel Beckett

  Knowledge, Thinking, Curiosity

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.288, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Death, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays”, p.328, Grove Press

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• Love requited is a short circuit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Affection, Short Circuit

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• 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

  Wall, Nice, Feet

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

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• There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  1955 Waiting for Godot, act1.

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• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for
  that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  Samuel Beckett

  One Day, Watches, Goes On

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  Samuel Beckett

  Shining, Looks, Goes On

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.159, Grove Press

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• I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Knowing

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• Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Darkness, Certain

  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.159, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

  Samuel Beckett

  Giving, Waiting For Godot, Impression

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• 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

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• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  Samuel Beckett

  Regret, Long, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.158, Grove Press

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• Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Night, Light

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

  Samuel Beckett

  Our Generation, Somewhere Else, Laughing

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Landscape, Extinction, Next

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• My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.

  Samuel Beckett

  Responsibility, People, Criticism

  Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider, Maurice Harmon (1998). “No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

  Samuel Beckett

  Spring, Long, Mud

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Unhappiness, Beckett, Endgame

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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