Quotations From SAMUEL BECKETT

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• 141.

  The mind too closes as it were. As the window might close of a dark empty room.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in Company, p. 23, Grove Press (1980).
  
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• 142.

  He moved with the shades of the dead and the dead-born and the unborn and the never-to-be-born, in a Limbo purged of desire.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Beckett's first novel; published after the author's death. The narrator, in Dream of Fair to Middling Women, p. 44, The Black Cat Press, Dublin (1992).
• 143.

  Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Disjecta, p. 103, Grove Press (1984). From a letter to George Reavey dated November 13, 1936.
• 144.

  We all are born mad. Some remain so.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Estragon, in Waiting for Godot, act 2 (1952, trans. 1954).
• 145.

  I gave up before birth.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in "Fizzle 4," Fizzles, p. 31, Grove Press (1976).
  
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• 146.

  Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in Ill Seen Ill Said, p. 17, Grove Press (1981).
  
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• 147.

  With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First edition, 1958. Krapp, in Krapp's Last Tape, pp. 14-15, Grove Press (1960).
  
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• 148.

  We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First edition, 1958. Krapp, in Krapp's Last Tape, pp. 23, Grove Press (1960).
• 149.

  Lick your neighbor as yourself!

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Hamm, in Endgame, p. 68, Grove Press (1958). based on Leviticus 18:19 and Matthew 19:19: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as yourself."
• 150.

  Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1958. The narrator, in The Unnamable, p. 51, Grove Press (1970).
  
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