Skip to content

Quotes from The End — Samuel Beckett

1906–1989 Ireland

← All quotes by Samuel Beckett

11 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)

My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.

The End (1946)

Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.

The End (1946)

I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.

The End (1946)

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

The End (1946)

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

The End (1946)

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

The End (1946)

The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.

The End (1946)

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

The End (1946)

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

The End (1946)

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.