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
long answers long-life
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
real two evil
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.
mind body retired
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
years fire gone
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
people brain favour
Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
air waiting-for-godot cry
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
people saint punctuality
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
time damnation monsters
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
use
There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
hands feelings absurdity
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)
real waiting-for-godot
Nothing is more real than nothing.
laughing stories world
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.
let-me-go you-let-me-go let-me
Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
thanks ends dear
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.