"What do we do now, now that we are happy?"

--

Source : Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.415, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Samuel Beckett

“I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.”
“You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.”
“I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.”
“If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.”
“If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.”
“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
“Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.”

Source : John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.18, Northwestern University Press

You may also like:

Albert Camus
Author
Bertolt Brecht
Poet
Eugene Ionesco
Playwright
Franz Kafka
Writer
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Harold Pinter
Playwright
James Joyce
Novelist
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
William Butler Yeats
Poet