Samuel Beckett Quotes

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Estragon: Nothing to be done.

Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.

Estragon: Suppose we repented.Vladimir: Repented what?Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details.Vladimir: Our being born?

Evoke at painful junctures, when discouragement threatens to raise its head, the image of a vast cretinous mouth, red blubber and slobbering, in solitary confinement, extruding indefatigably, with a n...

I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now. I don't know how I got there. Perhaps in an ambulance, certainly a vehicle of some kind. I was helped. I'd never have got there alone. There's this...

I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort. But it is just as well to let myself die, quietly, without rushing things. Something must...

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

It is the role of objects to restore silence

My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

This is slow work. . . .Is it not time for my pain-killer?

This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect.

What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I'm not sure of it.

كل كارثة تهددني ، بعد حمام الوحل سأكون أقدر على الصبر على عالم ما لم يلوثه وجودي .

هر عارضه‌ای که تسکین پیدا کند عارضه‌ای دیگر به وخامت می‌گراید. بشر یک چاه است با دو سطل. یکی پایین می‌رود تا پر شود، دیگری بالا می‌آید تا خالی شود ...

And I'll be able to go on, no, I'll be able to stop, or start, another guzzle of lies but piping hot, it will last my time, it will be my time and place, my voice and silence, a voice of silence, the...

After all this window is whatever I want it to be, up to a point, that's right, don't compromise yourself. What strikes me to begin with is how much rounder it is than it was, so that it looks like a...

And he said also, by way of a rider, that even if he had the whole night before him, in which to rest, and grow warm, on a chair, in the kitchen, even then it would be a poor resting, and a mean warmi...

And if I have always behaved like a pig, the fault lies not with me but with my superiors, who corrected me only on points of detail instead of showing me the essence of the system...