Samuel Beckett on Nature
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Samuel Beckett, catalogued under nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Samuel Beckett, entry #191440: "Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me."
Attributed to Samuel Beckett, entry #161095: "There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common."
6 Quotes by Samuel Beckett on Nature
"Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me."
"There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common."
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
"The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said."
"By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise."
"Hamm: Look at the ocean!Clov: Never seen anything like that!Hamm : What? A sail? A fin? Smoke?Clov : The light is sunk. Hamm : Pah! We all knew that. Clov : There was a bit left. Hamm: The base. Clov : Yes. Hamm: And now? Clov : All gone. Hamm: No gulls? Clov : Gulls! Hamm: And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon? Clov : What in God's name could there be on the horizon? Hamm: The waves, how are the waves? Clov: The waves? Lead. Hamm: And the sun? Clov : Zero. Hamm: But it should be sinking. Look again. Clov : Damn the sun. Hamm: Is it night already then? Clov : No. Hamm: Then what is it? Clov : Gray. Gray! GRRAY! Hamm : Gray! Did I hear you say gray? Clov: Light black. From pole to pole."