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Samuel Beckett — Portrait after a picture by Roger Pic (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Samuel Beckett

Irish writer

1906–1989

8 quotes.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Murphy (1938), Part I (p. 1)
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
Molloy (1951)
- Life & Death
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
The Unnamable (1954)
- Talking
To restore silence is the role of objects.
Molloy (1951)
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
Molloy (1951)
- Character
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
The Unnamable (1954)
There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
Molloy (1951)
- Nature
I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
Malone Dies (1951)
- Comedy

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