Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckettwas a French-Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth13 April 1906
CityFoxrock, Ireland
CountryIreland
eye sorrow tears
The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
too-late waiting-for-godot moments
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!
silence roles silence-is
To restore silence is the role of objects.
smile laughter people
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
destiny men radishes
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
morning sky facts
The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
thinking impossible speak
But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
teaching learning faults
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
heart language has-beens
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
life hate men
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
sweet qualms-about littles
And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.
thinking mind want
Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
memories mean goes-on
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
bears grudge whisky
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.