Quotes about Becket

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If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love. — Samuel Beckett
We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure af — Kasey Michaels, The Return Of The Prodigal
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. — Samuel Beckett, Endgame
What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the h — Samuel Beckett, Molloy
Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada: I thought as m — Samuel Beckett, Embers
Tell me I’m enough for you,” he demanded. “Can you be with me even though I’m so wrong?” She was satin and warmth. The w — Debra Anastasia, Return to Poughkeepsie
In a sense, Joyce was Beckett's Don Quixote, and Beckett was his Sancho Panza. Joyce aspired to the One; Beckett encapsu — Lois Gordon, The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle — Samuel Beckett
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, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, beca — Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my — Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
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 — Penelope Fitzgerald
Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very lo — Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a w — Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I neve — Samuel Beckett, Embers
He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time. — Johnny Rich, The Human Script
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. — Edward Albee
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all move — Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread — they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out — Samuel Beckett