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Samuel Beckett Quotes about Language

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

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

Samuel Beckett
Silence, Quiet, 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.

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

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

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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