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
baseball yankees clear-goals
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
world creation all-time
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
art doe clarity
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
tone helping conversation
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
useless want rams
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.
love love-you ifs
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
silence looks
Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
inspirational motivational encouraging
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
truth swim speak
What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.
believe attention pay
Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.
baby children matter
They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
mistake stories enough
That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.