Samuel Beckett quotes

“Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”

— Samuel Beckett

“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.”

— Samuel Beckett

“It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.”

— Samuel Beckett