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
knowing awareness
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
men shoes feet
There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
reality together flesh
in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure
details born
Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?
void
There's no lack of void.
answers
Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
taken yesterday mood
There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
psychological born
We are all born; some remain so.
names language futility
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
creation
What was God doing with himself before the creation?
thinking
We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
perseverance trying failing
Try again. Fail again. Try better.
years yesterday track
Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
want should
Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing.