Quotations From SAMUEL BECKETT

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• 151.

  This story is no good, I'm almost beginning to believe it.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1958. The narrator, in The Unnamable, p. 58, Grove Press (1970).
  
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• 152.

  Imaginary frontiers invisible to the eye of flesh

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in The Lost Ones, p. 43, Grove Press (1972).
• 153.

  We may reason on to our heart's content, the fog won't lift.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1967. The narrator, in "The Expelled" (in Stories and Texts for Nothing), p. 15, Grove Press (1968).
  
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• 154.

  Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in The Lost Ones, p. 7, Grove Press (1972).
  
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• 155.

  To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1967. The narrator, in "The End" (in Stories and Texts for Nothing), p. 70, Grove Press (1968).
• 156.

  For an instant I see the sky, the different skies, then they turn to faces, agonies, loves, the different loves, happiness too, yes there was that too, unhappily.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in "Fizzle 6," Fizzles, p. 44, Grove Press (1976).
  
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• 157.

  it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in "Fizzle 3," Fizzles, p. 26, Grove Press (1976).
• 158.

  Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Estragon, in Waiting for Godot, act 1 (1952, trans. 1954).
• 159.

  Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

  Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Estragon, in Waiting for Godot, act 2.
  
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• 160.

  In the umbra, the tunnel, when the mind went wombtomb, then it was real thought and real living, living thought.

  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. 45, The Black Cat Press, Dublin (1992).