God Quotes by Samuel Beckett

12 God quotes by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett’s brief statements strip away ornament, confronting the divine with stark clarity. This modest selection captures his minimalist style and the way he invites contemplation through restraint.

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“God knows I'm not intelligent otherwise I'd be dead”

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What was God doing with himself before the creation?

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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

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God is love. Yes or no? No.

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

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“I was merely cursing, under my breath, God and man, under my breath, and the wet Saturday afternoon of my conception.”

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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…

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

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The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks…

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“My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, and if he does…

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“Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaquaquaquaqua with white beard…

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“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he…

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“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

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It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to…

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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.…

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I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us…

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Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

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“ESTRAGON: Do you think God sees me? VLADIMIR: You must close your eyes. Estragon closes his eyes, staggers worse. ESTRAGON: (stopping, brandishing his fists,…

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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

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