Waiting For Godot

By

Samuel Beckett

QUOTATION: There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Vladimir, in Waiting for Godot, p. 8, Grove Press (1954).

QUOTATION: They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, p. 57a, Grove Press (1954).

QUOTATION: At this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Vladimir, in Waiting for Godot, p. 51, Grove Press (1954).

QUOTATION: Given the existence ... of a personal God ... who ... loves us dearly ... it is established beyond all doubt ... that man ... wastes and pines ... for reasons unknown.
ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Lucky, in Waiting for Godot, pp. 28a-29, Grove Press (1954).

QUOTATION: The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, act 1.

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