Samuel Beckett Quotes about Silence

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

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

Samuel Beckett

Silence, Looks

To restore silence is the role of objects.

Samuel Beckett

Silence, Roles, Silence Is

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

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

Samuel Beckett

Silence, Quiet, Language

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)

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

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

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)

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.