Samuel Beckett Quotes about Time

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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

Samuel Beckett

Time

Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.51, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

Samuel Beckett

Time, Monsters, Damnation

Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.461, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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.

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

Samuel Beckett

Time, Feelings, Relief

Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.50, Grove Press

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Samuel Beckett

Happy Birthday, Time, Thinking

Samuel Beckett (1959). “Watt”, Grove Pr

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

Samuel Beckett

Time, Blind, Notion

Samuel Beckett (2011). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.

Samuel Beckett

Time, Men, Way

Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.56, Faber & Faber

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Samuel Beckett

Time, Hair, Age

Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.94, Faber & Faber

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)