Godot Quotes

• Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting, Why Not, Waiting For Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

  Samuel Beckett

  Blessed, Confusion, Waiting

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.78, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Night, Light

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

  Samuel Beckett

  Too Late, Waiting For Godot, Moments

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Hate, Men

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bored, Awful, Waiting For Godot

  Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

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• All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting For Godot, Cruel Fate, Mankind

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

  Samuel Beckett

  Air, Waiting For Godot, Cry

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  Ian Mckellen

  Falling In Love, Children, Winning

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• To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking, Waiting For Godot, Morrow

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.454, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What are we doing here, that is the question.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Waiting For Godot, Existence

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  Samuel Beckett

  Somewhere Else, Laughing, Tears

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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• Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

  Samuel Beckett

  Giving, Waiting For Godot, Impression

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

  Phil Foglio

  Role Models, Roles, Bucks

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• Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

  John Lahr

  Father, Florida, Two

  "Panic Attack". www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2009.

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• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  Ian Mckellen

  Sweet, Waiting, Theatre

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• To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Littles, Waiting For Godot

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

  Samuel Beckett

  Our Generation, Somewhere Else, Laughing

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

  Samuel Beckett

  Said, Ifs

  "The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography". Book by Enoch Brater, p. 75, 2003.

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• Estragon: I can't go on like this.
  Vladimir: That's what you think.

  Samuel Beckett

  Moving On, Encouraging, Thinking

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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• We all are born mad. Some remain so.

  Samuel Beckett

  Mad, Waiting For Godot, Born

  'Waiting for Godot' (1955) act 2

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• Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Night, Light

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

  Vivian Mercier

  Play, Waiting, Firsts

  "The Uneventful Event". The Irish Times, p. 6, February 18, 1956.

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• We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!

  Samuel Beckett

  Hands, Bored, Waiting

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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