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
mean mean-love
Do we mean love, when we say love?
sea mind beacons
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
dies
The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter.
alternatives sun beckett
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
success couple home
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.
darkness feels rounds
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
perception experience vulgar
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
science mysterious affair
Mysterious affair, electricity.
friday monday prayer
The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.
heart dripping
Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
sea ends
There's never an end for the sea.
memories thinking mind
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
dog habit chains
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
change changed has-beens
To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.