746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

For what is this shadow of the going in which we come, this shadow of the coming in which we go, this shadow of the coming and the going in which we wait, if not the shadow of purpose, of the purpose that budding withers, that withering buds, whose blooming is a budding withering.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

The scream of No’s knife in Yes’s wound.

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I’d been saving up for her all my life.

Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It’d give us an erection.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most.

Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed... To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

So it is with time, that lightens what is dark, that darkens what is light.

I say to myself – sometimes, Clov, you must learn to suffer better than that if you want them to weary of punishing you – one day. I say to myself – sometimes, Clov, you must be better than that if you want them to let you go – one day. But I feel too old, and too far, to form new habits. Good, it’ll never end, I’ll never go.