It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
Samuel BeckettNothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you thatโฆ 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.
Samuel BeckettThey never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
Samuel BeckettI love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.
Samuel BeckettWhen the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.
Samuel Beckett