Quotes from 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.
- Samuel Beckett
Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
- Samuel Beckett
There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
- Samuel Beckett
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
- Samuel Beckett
I dont like animals. Its a strange thing, I dont like men and I dont like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
- Samuel Beckett
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
- Samuel Beckett
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
- Samuel Beckett
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
- Samuel Beckett
To restore silence is the role of objects.
- Samuel Beckett
I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.
- Samuel Beckett
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
- Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
- Samuel Beckett