Samuel Beckett Quotes

“Either I forget immediately or I never forget.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

topic:memory forgetting

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

topic:madness

“Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! . . . Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

topic:action

“To major things the surest road is on the minor pains bestowed, if you don't happen to be in a hurry.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

topic:greatness patience

“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”

― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

topic:light

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

topic:light

“People are bloody ignorant apes.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

topic:ignorance

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot?”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

topic:suffering

“But habit is a great deadener.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“To restore silence is the role of objects.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

topic:silence

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