Beckett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
-- Edward Albee

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Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
-- Grant Achatz

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
-- Samuel Beckett

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
-- Samuel Beckett

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These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.
-- Susanna Kearsley

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Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

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Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
-- Peter O'Toole

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Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.
...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.
When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see that money has no place in state functions, and, the money power being entirely in his own hands, he will easily master the state and clearly define its services. Thus money must be seen as the means of mastery of all economic and political problems. Until we have mastered money we shall not master any of our problems. Not money, but a false money system, is the root of all evil.
I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.