Samuel Beckett quotes - page 8

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten. (Samuel Beckett)
Make sense who may. I switch off. View quote
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Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps. View quote
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Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it. View quote
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My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art. View quote
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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. View quote
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Do you always believe in the life to come Mine was always that. View quote
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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. View quote
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We lose our hair, our teeth Our bloom, our ideals. View quote
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I didn't feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn't say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication. View quote
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Having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. For I stopped being half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble ... and if I did not go in a rigorously straight line, with my system of going in a circle, at least I did not go in a circle, and that was something. (Samuel Beckett)
Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name. View quote
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In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill. View quote
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