Samuel Beckett Quotes

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.

If I can be somewhere with sunshine and have bare feet and a book, I'm happy.

I like to take long drives.I like to just enjoy the world and know what it is.

I love to be outside.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice

My hours are peaceful centuries.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.