Quotes by : Samuel Beckett

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada:....

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes....

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone.....

The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

They love each other, marry (in order to love each other better, more conveniently). He goes to the wars,....

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or....

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But....

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in....

...then much, then little, then nothing.