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
life-is habit succession
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
writing letters life-is
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
life death birth
The end of a life is always vivifying.
life daughter horse
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.
life waiting-for-godot godot
What are we doing here, that is the question.
life dance thinking
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
life hate men
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
life death dying
Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.
long answers long-life
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
generous thieves
For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.
remain
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
silence
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on
suffering artistic conditions
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
writing want ends
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.