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Godot Quotes

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Samuel Beckett
Real, Waiting For Godot
Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

Samuel Beckett
Too Late, Waiting For Godot, Moments
Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Samuel Beckett
Life, Waiting For Godot, Godot
Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Samuel Beckett
Bored, Awful, Waiting For Godot
Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Samuel Beckett
Waiting For Godot, Godot, Cruel Fate
Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

Samuel Beckett
Waiting For Godot, Speak, Stay With Me
Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.412, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett
Air, Waiting For Godot, Cry
Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.81, Faber & Faber

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

Samuel Beckett
Waiting, Why Not, Waiting For Godot
Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

Samuel Beckett
Men, Littles, Waiting For Godot

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Samuel Beckett
Godot, Said, Ifs
"The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography". Book by Enoch Brater, p. 75, 2003.

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

Samuel Beckett
Giving, Waiting For Godot, Impression
Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett
Mad, Waiting For Godot, Godot
'Waiting for Godot' (1955) act 2

To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

Samuel Beckett
Thinking, Waiting For Godot, Godot
Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.454, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Alasdair MacIntyre
Waiting, Different, Godot
Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

Nathan Lane
Kids, Godot, Strangeness
"Laughter in the Dark". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com. April 19, 2009.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

Gianfranco Fini
Government, Waiting, Godot
RaiNews24, November 16, 2007.

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