Samuel Beckett, Molloy Quotes

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

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.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.