Samuel Beckett Quotes

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.