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Samuel Beckett on God

1906–1989 Ireland

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6 quotes

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

They were most correct, according to their god.

The Expelled (1946)

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Watt (1943)

Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.

The End (1946)

The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.

The Unnamable (1954)

A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.

The End (1946)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Beckett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.