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Waiting for Godot quotes

Samuel Beckett

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“People are bloody ignorant apes.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“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
“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
“Who am I to tell my private nightmares to if I can't tell them to you?” 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
“We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“There's no lack of void.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!” 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
“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
“Either I forget immediately or I never forget.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.” 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
“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
“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.” 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
“But habit is a great deadener.” 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
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Nothing you can do about it . . . No use struggling . . . One is what one is.” 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

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