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Famous Samuel Beckett Quotes
“What was God doing with himself before the creation?”
“All life long, the same questions, the same answers.”
“There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.”
“Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!”
“The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.”
“We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?”
“We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.”
“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”
“Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.”
“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”
“it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one”
“The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.”
“Words fail, there are times when even they fail.”
“The end of a life is always vivifying.”
“Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.”
“What are we doing here, that is the question.”
“There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.”
“That penny farthing hell you call your mind”
“Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most”
“My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.”
“I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.”
“The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.”