15 quotes
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
The Unnamable (1954)
I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
The Unnamable (1954)
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)
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
The Unnamable (1954)
What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity.
The Unnamable (1954)
How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.
The Unnamable (1954)
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
The Unnamable (1954)
What they were most determined for me to swallow was my fellow creatures. In this they were without mercy.
The Unnamable (1954)
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)
Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.
The Unnamable (1954)
This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
The Unnamable (1954)
Where now? Who now? When now? Unquestioning. I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on.
The Unnamable (1954)
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.
The Unnamable (1954)
Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
The Unnamable (1954)