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Samuel Beckett Quotes about Love

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

Samuel Beckett (2007). “Collected Poems in English and French”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Stydenstricker Buck, Ivan Alekseevič Bunin (1971). “Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Buck [and] Ivan Bunin”

Lick your neighbor as yourself!

Samuel Beckett (1970). “Endgame, a Play in One Act: Followed by Act Without Words, a Mime for One Player”

To what will love not stoop!

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.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

God is love. Yes or no? No.

Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.32, Faber & Faber