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
self hands two
Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.
artist tasks chaos
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
sunshine trying together
We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench
two might fool
For 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.
art ignorance independent
When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.
people ignorant apes
People are bloody ignorant apes.
window knows universe
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
reality realism figures
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
never-forget forget
Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
soul able stories
I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
Words are all we have.
mistake my-mistakes
My mistakes are my life.
time thinking cybernetics
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
tolerance aversion indifference
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust