Samuel Beckett Quotes about Reality

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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, Surface, Realism

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

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Samuel Beckett

Art, Reality, Literature

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

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, Men, Thinking

Samuel Beckett (1955). “Molloy: A Novel”, p.115, Grove Press

The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, Self

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, Appreciate, Effort

Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, Figures, Realism

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

Samuel Beckett

Reality, Together, Flesh

Samuel Beckett (1964). “How it is”, p.140, Grove Press

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Samuel Beckett

Art, Philosophy, Reality

First Love (1973) p. 8

All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, Space, Might

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