Samuel Beckett on Easter
1906–1989 Ireland
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5 quotes
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)
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)
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
Molloy (1951)
Clov: Do you believe in the life to come? Hamm: Mine was always that.
Endgame (1958)
I don’t know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I’ll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
The Expelled (1946)