Samuel Beckett Quotes

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine… ‘Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned.’ That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.