Samuel Beckett Quotes

Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

Samuel Beckett

Quotes to Explore

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz
- Time
- Universe
- Couple
It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

T. C. Boyle
- Time
- Heart
- Brain
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

Gary Lucas
- Time
- Music
- Listening
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

Lady Gregory
- Time
- World
- Death
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

Nana Mouskouri
- Time
- Want
- You
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.

Oscar Isaac
- Time
- Funny
- Street