746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Perhaps he is crying out for help all this time and I do not hear him! [Pause.] I do of course hear cries. [Pause.] But they are in my head surely. [Pause.] Is it possible that... [Pause. With finality] No no, my head was always full of cries. [Pause.] Faint confused cries. [Pause.] They come. [Pause.] Then go. [Pause.] As on a wind.

V: After having sucked all the good out of him you duck him away like a... like a banana skin.

VLADIMIR: Has he a beard, Mr. Godot?BOY: Yes Sir.VLADIMIR: Fair or... or black?BOY: I think it's white, Sir.VLADIMIR: Christ have mercy on us!

V: After having sucked all the good out of hikike m you duck him away like a... like a banana skin.

If I had known who Godot is, I would have written it in the script.

I have finished Pasternak with mixed feelings, which is more than I hoped for.

Morning is the time to hide. They wake up, hale and hearty, their tongues hanging out for order, beauty and justice, baying for their due. Yes, from eight or nine till noon is the dangerous time. But towards noon things quiet down, the most implacable are sated, they go home, it might have been better but they've done a good job, there have been a few survivors but they'll give no more trouble, each man counts his rats.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.