Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French.

Birth: April 13, 1906 - Death: December 22, 1989

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Topic(s): World , Creation , All Time

Let’s go.We can’t.Why not?We’re waiting for Godot.

Topic(s): Waiting , Why Not , Godot

To restore silence is the role of objects.

Topic(s): Roles , Silence , Objects

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Topic(s): Life , Existence , Godot

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Topic(s): Real , Waiting For Godot

My keepers, why keepers, I’m in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it’s to make me think I’m a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

Topic(s): Thinking , Danger , Prisoner

Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

Topic(s): People , Sometimes , Brain

There’s no lack of void.

Topic(s): Void

Enough to know no knowing.

Topic(s): Knows , Enough , Knowing

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

Topic(s): Feels , Darkness , Rounds

The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom … that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

Topic(s): Real , Suffering , Evil

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Samuel Beckett Quotes