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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Endgame Funny Unhappiness Nothing

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.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Example Identifying With Others People Separation

Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Embers Love Play Relationship Soul

In a sense, Joyce was Beckett's Don Quixote, and Beckett was his Sancho Panza. Joyce aspired to the One; Beckett encapsulated the fragmented many. But as each author accomplished his task, it was in the service of the other. Ultimately, Beckett's landscapes would resound with articulate silence, and his empty spaces would collect within themselves the richness of multiple shadows--a physicist would say the negative particles--of all that exists in absence, as in the white patches of an Abstract Expressionist painting. Becket would evoke, on his canvasses of vast innuendo and through the interstices of conscious and unconscious thought, the richness that Joyce had made explicit in words and intricate structure.

~ Lois Gordon

Lois Gordon Beckett Joyce Literature The One And The Many

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

~ Samuel Beckett

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

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Krapp Life Love Play Relationship

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Krapp Moments Play Relationship

I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.

~ Samuel Beckett

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Alone Beckett Darkness Play Self

Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Embers Play Self Stories

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

~ Johnny Rich

Johnny Rich Beckett Boredom Ennui Godot Hanging Samuel Beckett Suicide

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Krapp Life Love Movement Play Relatipnship Silence

The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Fuck Irish Off Samuel Writer

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Absurdity Beckett Existentialism

HAMM:Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday!CLOV (violently):That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day. I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.(Pause.)

~ Beckett Samuel

Beckett Samuel Absurdity Beckett Existentialism

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.

~ Samuel Beckett

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I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket! But I got a little tired of the redundancy.

~ Natasha Tsakos

Natasha Tsakos Authors Beckett Molière Shakespeare Tenessee Theatre

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Beckett Krapp Life Misery Play
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