746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

SHE: [Astonished.] But he is alone!HE: Yes.SHE: All alone?HE: When one is alone one is all alone.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same

VLADIMIR: It's the start that's difficult.ESTRAGON: You can start from anything.VLADIMIR: Yes, but you have to decide.ESTRAGON: True.

What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.

Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.

I didn't understand women at that period. I still don't for that matter. Nor men either. Nor animals either. What I understand best, which is not saying much, are my pains.