Knows Quotes by Samuel Beckett

12 Knows quotes by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett’s take on what it means to truly know is both bleak and oddly comforting. These twelve snippets capture his signature minimalism, letting the weight of each line settle without fanfare.

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Enough to know no knowing.

Samuel Beckett

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

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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

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Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at…

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What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer.…

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If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy…

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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more…

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Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on,…

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Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

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What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out…

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I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is…

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What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past.…

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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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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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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

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