Samuel Beckett Quotes


For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.


Citations

Beckett, Samuel. Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Grove Press, 1958, p. 64.

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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
  • Born: April 13, 1906
  • Died: December 22, 1989
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Theatre Director, Essayist

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both French and English.