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Quotes from Molloy — Samuel Beckett

1906–1989 Ireland

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There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

Molloy (1951)

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

Molloy (1951)

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

Molloy (1951)

To restore silence is the role of objects.

Molloy (1951)

Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

Molloy (1951)

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)

Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

Molloy (1951)

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Molloy (1951)

One is what one is, partly at least.

Molloy (1951)

To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets.

Molloy (1951)

Let me cry out then, it's said to be good for you. Yes let me cry out, this time, then another time perhaps, then perhaps a last time.

Molloy (1951)

Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong.

Molloy (1951)

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)

But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.

Molloy (1951)

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.

Molloy (1951)

There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.

Molloy (1951)

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

Molloy (1951)

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)

I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line.

Molloy (1951)

I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

Molloy (1951)

Attribution

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