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

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.