746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Yes, my resolutions were remarkable in this, that they were no sooner formed than something always happened to prevent their execution. That.

It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I’d die, I turned aside to vomit, I envied them.

That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.

Another happy day.

ESTRAGON: I can’t go on like this. VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.

There’s never an end for the sea.

And I’ll be myself at last, as a starveling belches his odourless wind, before the bliss of a coma.

Alone he watched the sky go out, dark deepen to its full. He kept his eyes on the engulfed horizon, for he knew from experience what last throes it was capable of. And in the dark he could hear better too, he could hear the sounds the long day had kept from him, human murmurs for example, and the rain on the water.

It’s a rare thing not to have been bonny – once.