Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
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Famous Samuel Beckett Quotes
Source: Molloy
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Source: Molloy
“Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.”
Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: The Unnamable
“Yes, light, there is no other word for it.”
Source: The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others
Source: The Unnamable
Source: Collected Poems in English and French
Source: The Unnamable
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
“How hideous is the semicolon.”
Source: Watt
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant”
Source: Molloy
Source: Endgame and Act Without Words
“Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.”
Source: Molloy
Source: Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.”
Source: Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces
“Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.”
Source: Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces
“Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
Source: Endgame and Act Without Words
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
“POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.”
“Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.”
Source: Proust
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”
Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett