Mind Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

— Samuel Beckett

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

— Samuel Beckett

“the last at last seen of him himself unseen by him and of himself”

— Samuel Beckett

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

— Samuel Beckett

That penny farthing hell you call your mind

— Samuel Beckett

“Your mind, never active at anytime, is now even less than ever so.”

— Samuel Beckett

“You, my body, my mind...one must go.”

— Samuel Beckett

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

— Samuel Beckett

“What a weary way since that first disaster, what nerves torn from the heart of insentience, with the appertaining terror and the…

— Samuel Beckett

Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think…

— Samuel Beckett

Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must…

— Samuel Beckett

“He was split, one part of him never left this mental chamber that pictured itself as a sphere full of light fading…

— Samuel Beckett

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the…

— Samuel Beckett

“The sensation of the seat of a chair coming together with his drooping posteriors at last was so delicious that he rose…

— Samuel Beckett

Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing…

— Samuel Beckett

Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry…

— Samuel Beckett

The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not…

— Samuel Beckett