Samuel Beckett Quotes

When you're in your own world, you don't know what's outside your world, so you can do whatever you want.

Remember we're all in this alone.

I'm an outsider by instinct.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

It's good to be an outsider.

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

I am ready to be alone.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.