746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

VLADIMIR: I missed you . . . and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a strange thing?ESTRAGON: (shocked). Happy?VLADIMIR: Perhaps it's not quite the right word.ESTRAGON: And now?VLADIMIR: Now? . . . (Joyous.) There you are again . . . (Indifferent.) There we are again. . .(Gloomy.) There I am again.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

HAMM: You stink already. The whole place stinks of corpses.CLOV: The whole universe.HAMM: [Angrily.] To hell with the universe! [Pause.] Think of something.CLOV: What?HAMM: An idea, have an idea. [Angrily.] A bright idea!

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

I am interested in the shape of ideas, even if I do not believe in them

And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant.

drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.