107 quotes
To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.
The End (1946)
They were most correct, according to their god.
The Expelled (1946)
Bid us sigh on from day to day,
And wish and wish the soul away,
Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone.
Watt (1943)
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Waiting for Godot (1952)
Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
Molloy (1951)
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
Watt (1943)
For 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)
By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience.
Three Dialogues (1949)
Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
Molloy (1951)
The loss of consciousness for me was never any great loss.
Malone Dies (1951)
Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.
Texts for Nothing (1955)
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
The Expelled (1946)
To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.
The Calmative (1946)
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
The Unnamable (1954)
Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
The Unnamable (1954)
Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
Molloy (1951)
Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
The Expelled (1946)
One is what one is, partly at least.
Molloy (1951)
Nothing is more real than nothing.
Malone Dies (1951)
To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets.
Molloy (1951)