Author Profile
Samuel Beckett
1906 – 1989 • Irish • Playwright
33
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 33 quotesAll 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
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.— Samuel Beckett
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.— Samuel Beckett
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.— Samuel Beckett
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.— Samuel Beckett
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?— Samuel Beckett
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.— Samuel Beckett
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.— Samuel Beckett