Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish Playwright
Born: Apr 13, 1906
Died: Dec 22, 1989
Beginning Man Me Nothing Silence You
Related authors: Arthur Miller Graham Greene James M. Barrie Lynn Nottage Moliere Noel Coward Plautus W. Somerset Maugham
We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett
Funny Mad Some Born Remain
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett
Find Mess Task Artist Form Now
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett
Silence Word Nothingness Every Unnecessary Like Stain
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett
Silence You Must Never Know Am Go Where
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett
Love Me You Love Me Shall Love You Loved
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Samuel Beckett
Light Birth Once Once More Give More Instant Gleam Then Grave Night
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett
Quality World Tears Somewhere Else Laugh Constant Somewhere Else Weep True Another Begins Same Stops Who Each Each One
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Samuel Beckett
Humanity Intelligence Sense Philosophers Poets
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. Samuel Beckett
You World Nothing Most Yes Than Unhappiness Grant Thing Funnier
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. Samuel Beckett
Good Day Memories Old Down Too Other Chronicle Worst One Day Recognize Bad Able Only Unchanging He Days Like Gently His Die Any Little Should Reason Grow Right
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. Samuel Beckett
Life Myself Book Beginning Pencil About Write Longer Him Another Exercise Same Just Whose
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. Samuel Beckett
Analyzer Synthesizer Out Could He Joyce Am Leave Trying James James Joyce Much Bring
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. Samuel Beckett
Me Together Wonderful Thought First Believe Worms Earth Something Drift Shall Through Perhaps Cliff Surface End Just In The End Then Acre Separate Sea Ton
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Samuel Beckett
People Our How How Many People Saints Boast Much Many Appointment Kept
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. Samuel Beckett
Man Better State Silences More Shall Better Man Vertigo Than Spangled Ever Butterflies

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