Samuel Beckett Quotes

Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

During the night we must wait for the light.

There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.

When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.

Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

You should shine with all of your light all the time.

Rise above... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.

I follow my inner star. I AM a shining example of Love and Light.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.