Samuel Beckett Quotes

I was in hospital once. There was a man in another ward, dying of throat cancer. In the silence, I could hear his screams continually. That’s the only kind of form my work has.

To carefully choose one’s moment and keep quiet, is this the only way one can be and live?

CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.

Everything is false. There is no one…there is nothing.

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

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

You overdo it with your carrots.

I am like that. I either forget right away or I never forget.

VLADIMIR: That passed the time. ESTRAGON:  It would have passed in any case. VLADIMIR: Yes, but not so rapidly.

He can’t  think without his hat.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

I can no longer bear to be human and I will no longer try.