746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.

Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing.

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them. *1937

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.