746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity.

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

That penny farthing hell you call your mind

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side. (Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.) Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.