Source: Waiting for Godot
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Famous Samuel Beckett Quotes
Source: Waiting for Godot
“One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.”
“Words fail, there are times when even they fail.”
Source: Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts
“That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.”
Source: Molloy
“The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.”
Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
“That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.”
Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Source: Watt
Source: Watt
“We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett