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 BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
-
-
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
SAMUEL BECKETT -
The essential doesn’t change.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
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 -
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
There’s never an end for the sea.
SAMUEL BECKETT