Samuel Beckett Quotes

But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

La fin est dans le commencement et cependant on continue.

Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot?

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.

VLADIMIR: Well? What do we do?
ESTRAGON: Don't let's do anything. It's safer.

To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,

Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us... We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

You think you are simply resting, the better to act when the time comes, or for no reason, and you soon find yourself powerless ever to do anything again.