Samuel Beckett Quotes

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

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• Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Book
  • Light
  • City

• We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Small
  • Problems
  • Down

• I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Important
  • Me
  • Myself

• They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Brave
  • Solution
  • Turn

• I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

  

  Rae Carson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Decision
  • Religion
  • Thought

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Rock
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Best
  • Ideas
  • Sense

• I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Voice

• I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Used

• I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • She
  • Girl
  • Feel

• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Sometimes
  • Goal
  • Grit

• Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

  

  Eamon Duffy
  • History
  • Past
  • Present

• Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Family
  • Justice
  • Decision

• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Chance
  • Silence
  • Chaos

• Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Soul
  • Giving
  • Silence

• Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

  

  Alfred Brendel
  • Remember
  • Silence
  • Anagram

• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence
  • Go