--- title: "4 First love Quotes By Samuel Beckett" description: "4 First love quotes by Samuel Beckett. Plus more from Samuel Beckett and more First love sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/samuel-beckett-365_december_it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold_150.png" --- > [“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold-the-eel-soup-lay-heavy-on-my/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/samuel-beckett-365_december_it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold_150.png) > [“It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-took-me-a-long-time-my-lifetime-so-to-speak-to-realise-that-the/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/samuel-beckett-365_existence-of-god_it-took-me-a-long-time-my-lifetime-so-to_1450100.jpg) > [“She dragged me across the floor, stopping from time to time only to kick me. I didn't know our cows too could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/she-dragged-me-across-the-floor-stopping-from-time-to-time-only-to/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/samuel-beckett-365_beckett_she-dragged-me-across-the-floor-stopping_2053481.png) > [“But I did not yet know, at that time, how tender the earth can be for those who have only her and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/but-i-did-not-yet-know-at-that-time-how-tender-the-earth-can-be-for/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/samuel-beckett-365_first-love_but-i-did-not-yet-know-at-that-time-how_2687808.png) ## Other authors on First love - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rainbow-rowell-76937.jpg) Rainbow Rowell 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/rainbow-rowell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-ritu-ghatourey-5.jpg) Ritu Ghatourey 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/ritu-ghatourey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aaron-boone-8642.jpg) Chloe Thurlow 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/chloe-thurlow/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-drake-30664.jpg) Drake 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/drake/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bobbie-ann-mason-18728.jpg) Becca 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/becca/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sarah-dessen-83191.jpg) Sarah Dessen 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/sarah-dessen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/rumi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nicholas-sparks-71065.jpg) Nicholas Sparks 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/nicholas-sparks/) ## More by Samuel Beckett > [“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold-the-eel-soup-lay-heavy-on-my/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/to-be-always-what-i-am-and-so-changed-from-what-i-was/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [To what will love not stoop!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/to-what-will-love-not-stoop/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/with-all-this-darkness-round-me-i-feel-less-alone/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/you-may-say-it-is-all-in-my-head-and-indeed-sometimes-it-seems-to-me/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/here-he-stood-here-he-sat-here-he-knelt-here-he-lay-here-he-moved-to/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/what-are-we-doing-here-that-is-the-question-and-we-are-blessed-in/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-shall-state-silences-more-competently-than-ever-a-better-man/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-is-useless-not-to-seek-not-to-want-for-when-you-cease-to-seek-you/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/we-are-not-saints-but-we-have-kept-our-appointment-how-many-people/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-new-light-above-my-table-is-a-great-improvement-with-all-this/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-lay-down-across-her-with-my-face-in-her-breasts-and-my-hand-on-her/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/women-are-all-the-bloody-sameyou-can-t-love-for-five-minutes-without/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [“ESTRAGON: Do you think God sees me? VLADIMIR: You must close your eyes. Estragon closes his eyes, staggers worse. ESTRAGON: (stopping, brandishing his fists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/estragon-do-you-think-god-sees-me-vladimir-you-must-close-your-eyes/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/deplorable-mania-when-something-happens-to-inquire-what/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/samuel-beckett/#itemlist", "name": "4 First love Quotes By Samuel Beckett", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned aside to vomit, I envied them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Beckett" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold-the-eel-soup-lay-heavy-on-my/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/samuel-beckett-365_december_it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold_150.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/samuel-beckett-365_december_it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold_150.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/samuel-beckett-365_december_it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold_150.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I…” — Samuel Beckett", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or the source of some distant sound, are closer to Giudecca in the hell of unknowing than the existence of God, or the origins of protoplasm, or the eistence of self, and even less worthy than these to occupy the wise, It's a bit much, a lifetime, to achieve this consoling conclusion, it doesn't leave you much time to profit by it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Beckett" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-took-me-a-long-time-my-lifetime-so-to-speak-to-realise-that-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/samuel-beckett-365_existence-of-god_it-took-me-a-long-time-my-lifetime-so-to_1450100.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/samuel-beckett-365_existence-of-god_it-took-me-a-long-time-my-lifetime-so-to_1450100.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/samuel-beckett-365_existence-of-god_it-took-me-a-long-time-my-lifetime-so-to_1450100.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or the…” — Samuel Beckett", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She dragged me across the floor, stopping from time to time only to kick me. 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