Words Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

— Samuel Beckett

Words are all we have.

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Samuel Beckett

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

— Samuel Beckett

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

— Samuel Beckett

“...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words.”

— Samuel Beckett

“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”

— Samuel Beckett

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and…

— Samuel Beckett

“And once again I am I will not say alone, no, that's not like me, but, how shall I say, I don't…

— Samuel Beckett

“I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing,…

— Samuel Beckett

“I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence, and never sleep…

— Samuel Beckett

...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin,…

— Samuel Beckett