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Samuel Beckett quotes

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“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?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“People are bloody ignorant apes.”
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Nothing is more real than nothing.” Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
“We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Either I forget immediately or I never forget.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“There's no lack of void.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Who am I to tell my private nightmares to if I can't tell them to you?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.” Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
“The more people I meet the happier I become. From the meanest creature one departs wiser, richer, more conscious of one's blessings.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“There is something . . . more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“But habit is a great deadener.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“In the meantime let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“To restore silence is the role of objects.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! . . . Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Nothing you can do about it . . . No use struggling . . . One is what one is.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.” Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
“There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“To major things the surest road is on the minor pains bestowed, if you don't happen to be in a hurry.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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