Samuel Beckett Quotes

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

Take some time each day to bring clarity to your inner world.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

You can only see in others what is inside of you.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.