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Love Quotes by Samuel Beckett

45 Love quotes by Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett paints love as a thin light that eases loneliness, even in darkness. He notes that love’s true measure is reciprocal—if you love, you are loved, and the reverse holds. He also points out the paradox that love can feel both familiar and alien, a desert yet a shared pulse.

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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

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Better hope deferred than none.

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Light black. From pole to pole.

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We all are born mad. Some remain so.

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There's never an end for the sea.

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Do we mean love, when we say love?

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We are all born; some remain so.

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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.

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To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

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That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

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Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

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“the churn of stale words in the heart again love love love thud of the old plunger pestling the unalterable whey of…

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“there is [...] a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be loved…

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“they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different…

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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's…

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Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy…

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What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul…

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What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered…

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“To be together again, after so long, who love the sunny wind, the windy sun, in the sun, in the wind, that…

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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…

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“dead calm, then a murmur, a name, a murmured name, in doubt, in fear, in love, in fear, in doubt, wind of…

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“Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about? Henry: Not a living soul. Ada: I thought as…

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“I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few…

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“From Beckett's "The Unnamable": "They love each other, marry, in order to love each other better, more conveniently, he goes off to…

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“It was she made me acquainted with love. She went by the peaceful name of Ruth I think, but I can't say…

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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

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Lick your neighbor as yourself!

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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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To what will love not stoop!

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Love requited is a short circuit.

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God is love. Yes or no? No.

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Make sense who may. I switch off.

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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

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James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.

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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

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

To what will love not stoop!

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these…

“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.