How It Is Quotes

“find someone at last someone find you at last live together glued together love each other a little without being loved be loved a little without loving answer that leave it vague leave it dark”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“God knows I'm not intelligent otherwise I'd be dead”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“that childhood said to have been mine the difficulty of believing in it the feeling rather of having been born octogenarian at the age when one dies in the dark”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“all I hear leave out more leave out all hear no more lie there in my arms the ancient without end me we're talking of me without end that buries all mankind to the last cunt they'd be good moments in the dark the mud hearing nothing saying nothing capable of nothing nothing”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“astern receding land of brothers dimming lights mountain if I turn water roughening he falls I fall on my knees crawl forward clink of chains perhaps it’s not me perhaps it’s another perhaps it’s another voyage confusion with another what isle what moon you say the thing you see the thoughts sometimes that go with it it disappears the voice goes on a few words it can stop it can go on depending on what it’s not known it’s not said”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“starts so sudden comes so faint goes so fast ends so soon I’m”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“if he wants to leave him yes in peace yes without me there is peace yes was peace yes every day no if he thinks I'll leave him no I'll stay where I am yes glued to him yes tormenting him yes eternally yes”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“unbroken no paragraphs no commas not a second for”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“he's coming I'll have a voice no voice in the world but mine a murmur had a life up above down here I'll see my things again a little blue in the mud a little white our things little scenes skies especially and paths”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“first lesson theme song I dig my nails into his armpit right hand right pit he cries I withdraw them thump with fist on skull his face sinks in the mud his cries cease end of first lesson”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“I wait for us perhaps to come back and we don't come back for the evening perhaps to whisper to me what the morning had sung and that day to that morning no evening”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“but in that reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“way off on the right in the mud the hand opens and closes that helps me it's going let it go I realize I'm still smiling there's no sense in that now been none for a long time now”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“way off on the right the tugging hand the mouth shut grim the staring eyes glued to the mud perhaps we shall come back it will be dusk the earth of childhood glimmering again streaks of dying amber in a murk of ashes the earth must have been on fire when I see us we are already at hand

it is dusk we are going tired home I see only the naked parts the solidary faces raised to the east the pale swaying of the mingled hands tired and slow we toil up towards me and vanish”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“I call it it doesn't come I can't live without it I call it with all my strength it's not strong enough”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“no if he remembers how he lived no always lived like that yes flat on his belly in the mud yes in the dark yes with his sack yes”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“to have Pim's timepiece something wrong there and nothing to time I don't eat any more then no I don't drink any more and I don't eat any more don't move any more and don't sleep any more don't see anything any more and don't do anything any more it will come back perhaps all come back or a part I hear yes then no”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“always sleepy little sleep that's how they're trying to tell me this time sucked down spewed up yawning yawning always sleepy little sleep”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“part one before Pim before the discovery of Pim have done with that leaving only part two with Pim how it was then leaving only part three after Pim how it was then how it is vast tracts of time”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“When the great needs fail the need to move on the need to shit and vomit and the other great needs all my great categories of being”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“tot aşa dacă suntem un milion fiecare dintre noi nu cunoaşte personal decât pe călăul şi pe victima sa...
dar poate foarte bine în principiu să-i cunoască din auzite pe ceilalţi 999 997 pe care pricina locului său în horă n-are niciodată prilejul să-i întâlnească”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is