Samuel Beckett - Place Quotes

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In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.

Samuel Beckett

Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.

Samuel Beckett

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Samuel Beckett

This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there's no end to me, I don't know what it is, it isn't flesh, it doesn't end, it's like air…

Samuel Beckett

I 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 Beckett

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Samuel Beckett

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

Samuel Beckett

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

Samuel Beckett