746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

So all things limp together for the only possible.

The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.