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Molloy QUOTES

Molloy QUOTES

1 " [Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

2 " You can't have everything, I've often noticed it. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

3 " What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

4 " For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

5 " A mug's game in my opinion and tiring on top of that, in the long run. But I lent myself to it with a good enough grace, knowing it was love, for she had told me so. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

6 " I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

7 " [I]f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, to have done. Oh, I know, even when you mention only a few of the things there are you do not get done either, I know, I know. But it's a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

8 " And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

9 " Have you shat, my child, I said gently. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

10 " In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

11 " Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all? "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

12 " My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

13 " But it is only since I have ceased to live that I think of these things and the other things. It is in the tranquillity of decomposition that I remember the long confused emotion which was my life, and that I judge it, as it is said that God will judge me, and with no less impertinence. To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

14 " And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly the one which offered itself to me. And what I saw was more like a crumbling, a frenzied collapsing of all that had always protected me from all I was always condemned to be. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

15 " When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

16 " I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

17 " Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

18 " Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

19 " If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

20 " Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy