Godot quotes free#

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Then at night rest in the quiet house, there are no roads, no streets any more, you lie down by a window opening on refuge, the little sounds come that demand nothing, ordain nothing, explain nothing, propound nothing, and the short necessary night is soon ended, and the sky blue again all over the secret places where nobody ever comes, the secret places never the same, but always simple and indifferent, always mere places, sites of a stirring beyond coming and going, of a being so light and free that it is as the being of nothing. Through the grass the little mosspaths, bony with old roots, and the trees sticking up, and the flowers sticking up, and the fruit hanging down, and the white exhausted butterflies, and the birds never the same darting all day long into hiding. The long blue days, for his head, for his side, and the little paths for his feet, and all the brightness to touch and gather.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. Personally of course I regret everything.It is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity … it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity. 'Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett', Vogue Magazine, 1969.Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.One day the dogs of Ireland will do that too and perhaps also the pigs.” When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

Irish Catholicism is not attractive, but it is deeper. At the moment of crisis it had no more depth than an old-school tie.

My brother and mother got no value from their religion when they died. The family was Protestant, but for me it was only irksome and I let it go. 604-7, as quoted in 'Rick On Theater' 25 January 2018. Clayes, ed., Drama and Discussion (1967), pp. Driver, 'Beckett by the Madeleine' (1961), Columbia University Forum 4 (Summer 1961): 21-25 it later appeared in Stanley A. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion. The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.It is not as though I wanted to write them. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I think the next little bit of excitement is ﬂying.Said about Waiting for Godot, from Jonathan Croall, The Coming of Godot (2005) ISBN 5-6, p.As quoted in The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography, by Enoch Brater (revised edition, 2003) ISBN 1-3, p.If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.'Pues el delito mayor / Del hombre es haber nacido.'' from his essay Proust, quoting Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream). Comparable to 'The tragic figure represents the expiation of original sin, of the original and eternal sin of him and all his 'soci malorum,' the sin of having been born.As quoted in 'Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett' by John Gruen, in Vogue, (December 1969), p.Spend the years of learning squandering.Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. What are we doing here, that is the question. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflexion, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets.

Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. Not indeed that we personally are needed. “Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed.