746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

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

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

Habit is a great deadener.