Samuel Beckett Quotes

I've been outta my mind a long time.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

Who can refute a sneer?

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

I live in a crazy time.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Erskine is really a greater fool than I could have thought it possible to be and it is charity to give him that name.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

I would say that I'm a hot mess all the time.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

The draft's crazy. Everybody knows that.

It's a crazy world!

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

You will always be a hyena.

You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.