Samuel Beckett Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Roles, Silence Is

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

  Samuel Beckett

  Butterfly, Men, Silence

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Riverrun Pr

• Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Looks

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Silence, Matter

• Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Kind, Fine

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.20, Faber & Faber

• I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Gone, Awful

  Quoted in Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett (1978)

• Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Identity, Goes On

  The Unnamable (1959)

• POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Blind

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.76, Faber & Faber

• ...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on

  Samuel Beckett

  Pain, Doors, Long

  The Unnamable (1959)

• I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.

  Samuel Beckett

  Moving, Past, Hands

  "Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces".

• Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Darkness, Certain

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others”, p.159, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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