746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

  • Author Samuel Beckett
  • Quote

    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.

  • Share

  • Author Samuel Beckett
  • Quote

    Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  • Share

  • Author Samuel Beckett
  • Quote

    Perhaps my best years are gone ... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire that's in me now.

  • Share

  • Author Samuel Beckett
  • Quote

    I couldn't have done it otherwise, gone on I mean. I could not have gone on through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

  • Share


  • Author Samuel Beckett
  • Quote

    Art has always been this pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

  • Share

  • Author Samuel Beckett
  • Quote

    Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile a stain upon the silence.

  • Share

  • Author Samuel Beckett
  • Quote

    Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

  • Share