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Waiting for Godot QUOTES

Waiting for Godot QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

2 " The more people I meet the happier I become. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

3 " They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

4 " POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

5 " To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

6 " ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you?
ESTRAGON: You let me go. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

7 " Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That's where we'll go, I used to say, that's where we'll go for our honeymoon. We'll swim. We'll be happy. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

8 " (Looking at the tree) Pity we haven't got a bit of rope. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

9 " We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

10 " In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

11 " Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.
Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.
We have time to grow old.
The air is full of our cries.
But habit is a great deadener.
At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.
Let him sleep on. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

12 " E: Well, shall we go?
V: Yes, let's go.
(They do not move) "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

13 " Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

14 " There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

15 " That's how it is on this bitch of an earth. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

16 " Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

17 " Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

18 " Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

19 " Estragon: Nothing to be done. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot

20 " 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. "

― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot