Quote

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

Samuel Beckett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
Artist
Author
Cricketer
Film Director
French Resistance Fighter
Intellectual
Linguist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Dublin city
Samuel Barclay Beckett
Andrew Belis
Sam Beckett
Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
Samuel Beḳeṭ
Without
Vast
First
Flesh
Lasts
Last
Less
Fissure
Reality
Glued
Together
Breach
Firsts
Unthinkable

More quotes by Samuel Beckett

Image
The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
Samuel Beckett
Image
Love requited is a short circuit.
Samuel Beckett
Image
There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
Samuel Beckett
Image
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
Image
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
Samuel Beckett
Image
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.
Samuel Beckett
Image
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
Samuel Beckett
Image
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
Samuel Beckett
Image
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
Samuel Beckett
Image
Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.
Samuel Beckett
Image
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
Samuel Beckett
Image
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
Samuel Beckett
Image
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
Samuel Beckett
Image
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett
Image
Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
Samuel Beckett
Image
My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
Samuel Beckett
Image
I gave up before birth.
Samuel Beckett
Image
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
Samuel Beckett
Image
Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
Samuel Beckett
Image
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