Samuel Beckett Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
-
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
-
I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
-
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
-
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
-
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
-
After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
-
To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
-
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
-
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
-
A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
-
I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
-
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
-
All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
-
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
-
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
-
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
-
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
-
The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
-
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
-
I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
-
There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.
