746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

I say me, knowing all the while it’s not me.

If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we’re magicians.

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don’t know, I shouldn’t have begun.

We spend our life, it’s ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench.

Who knows what dirty story, what even better dirty story, it may even be one we have not heard before, told at some colossal pitch of pure smut, beats at this moment in vain against our eardrums.

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don’t understand how it can be endured.

Neary’s conception of friendship was very curious. He expected it to last. He never said, when speaking of an enemy: “He used to be a friend of mine”, but always, with affected precision: “I used to think he was a friend of mine.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. The horror-worn eyes linger abject on all they have beseeched so long, in a last prayer, the true prayer at last, the one that asks for nothing.