746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

I gave up before birth.

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.