Samuel Beckett Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Language, Failing

  Samuel Beckett (2013). “Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

  Samuel Beckett

  Heart, Language, Only Love

  Samuel Beckett (1974). “First Love and Other Shorts”, p.48, Grove Press

• It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

  Samuel Beckett

  Expression, Firsts, Language

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

• Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

  Samuel Beckett

  Names, Language, Futility

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