Samuel Beckett Quotes - Page 6

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• Words are all we have.

  Samuel Beckett

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• For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Two, Asking, Littles

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.273, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Feelings, Relief

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.50, Grove Press

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• So all things limp together for the only possible.

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  Together, All Things

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.144, Faber & Faber

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• It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

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  Long, Horrible, Effects

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.82, Grove Press

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• Enough to know no knowing.

  Samuel Beckett

  Knowledge, Knowing, Pessimism

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.63, Faber & Faber

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• We are all born; some remain so.

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  Psychological, Born

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• Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

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  Compromise, Environment, Habit

  "Proust". Book by Samuel Beckett, p. 7, 1957.

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• Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

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  Believe, Attention, Pay

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.94, Grove Press

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• Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

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  Unhappy, Enough

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Ends and Odds”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

  Samuel Beckett

  Fire, Years, Gone

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

  Samuel Beckett

  Filth, Forbidden, Relish

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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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• Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

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  Smile, Laughter, People

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.

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  Years, Long, Answers

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.101, Grove Press

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• The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

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  Reality, Appreciate, Effort

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

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  Sea, Mind, Beacons

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.111, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

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  Mania, Happens, Things Happen

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• The end of a life is always vivifying.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Death, Birth

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.206, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.

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  Taken, Eye, Simple

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.42, Faber & Faber

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• Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

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  Life, Believe, Belief

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• Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

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  Waiting, Why Not, Waiting For Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

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  Records, Delirium, Form

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.250, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Make sense who may. I switch off.

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  May, Resignation, Make Sense

  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.314, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

  Samuel Beckett

  Never Forget, Forget

  1955 Waiting for Godot, act 2.

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