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
time hair teeth
We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
time night light
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
fun time-flies having-fun
How time flies when one has fun!
time night light
Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
time cases
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
time feelings relief
Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.
time blind notion
The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
time men way
For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
time language failing
Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
time thinking cybernetics
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
time damnation monsters
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
time
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
world creation all-time
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
generous thieves
For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.