Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
-
-
If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
There’s never an end for the sea.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
SAMUEL BECKETT -
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETT