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Famous Samuel Beckett Quotes
“We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”
“Make sense who may. I switch off.”
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
“What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Source: Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett
“To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“To restore silence is the role of objects.”
Source: Molloy
“There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“God is a witness that cannot be sworn.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.”
Source: Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
“Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.”
“How time flies when one has fun!”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.”
Source: Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Buck [and] Ivan Bunin
Source: Three Novels: Molloy. Malone Dies. The Unnamable. [Translated from the French].
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
“All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“Do we mean love, when we say love?”
Source: All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
“Better hope deferred than none.”
Source: Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho
“Light black. From pole to pole.”
Source: Endgame and Act Without Words
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Source: Molloy
“All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.”
Source: Stories & Texts for Nothing
“Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.”
Source: The Unnamable
“To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.”
Source: Molloy
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Source: The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love
“If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”
“Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Source: Stories & Texts for Nothing
Source: Molloy
“They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still