Samuel Beckett on Humor
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Samuel Beckett, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Samuel Beckett, entry #216365: "Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. Leave it at that."
Attributed to Samuel Beckett, entry #238045: "I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects."
8 Quotes by Samuel Beckett on Humor
"Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. Leave it at that."
"I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects."
"My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health."
"How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast."
"I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids."
"Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me."
"Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.Nagg: Oh?Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more."
"It’s to me this evening something has to happen, to my body as in myth and metamorphosis, this old body to which nothing ever happened, or so little, which never met with anything, wished for anything, in its tarnished universe, except for the mirrors to shatter, the plane, the curved, the magnifying, the minifying, and to vanish in the havoc of its images."