Beckett Quotes

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

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.

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

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.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

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

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

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I went back and saw him afterwards, and what an actor he is. He is so gifted.

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.

Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

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.)

If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.

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

I say, you look smashing this evening, " Zayne strode over to her, took her arm, and began helping her up the walk, "That is a lovely gown, and what is the color of the hair you're currently sporting?

Sometimes you can save someone’s whole world just by smiling at them. Kindness is one of those things that has immense value to the person experiencing it.

But if all this time between them had taught him anything, it was that they were orbiting the same fate. Together, always together, even when physically apart.

His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread

What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.”“Yes, we can go on like this, ” said Cesare. “We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.