746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.