Samuel Beckett on Religion
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Samuel Beckett, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Samuel Beckett and filed under "Religion" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Samuel Beckett, entry #135810: "I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me."
Attributed to Samuel Beckett, entry #238665: "I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself."
10 Quotes by Samuel Beckett on Religion
"I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me."
"I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself."
"They were most correct, according to their god."
"It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible."
"If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot."
"A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous."
"The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits."
"Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid."
"God is a witness that cannot be sworn."
"Act I of Waiting for Godot"