Want Quotes by Samuel Beckett

12 Want quotes by Samuel Beckett

Beckett’s spare style strips longing down to its barest elements, making this brief set a potent starting point for existential curiosity.

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I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

Samuel Beckett

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All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.

Samuel Beckett

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I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

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Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing.

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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the…

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What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me…

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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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For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you…

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

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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…

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My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing…

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

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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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