Waiting For Godot Quotes:

To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.454, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Thinking, Waiting For Godot, Godot

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.412, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Waiting For Godot, Speak, Stay With Me, Godot

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Waiting, Why Not, Waiting For Godot, Godot

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

- Samuel Beckett

source: Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

topic: Giving, Waiting For Godot, Impression, Godot

Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

- Vivian Mercier

source: "The Uneventful Event". The Irish Times, p. 6, February 18, 1956.

topic: Play, Waiting, Firsts, Theoretical, Godot

What are we doing here, that is the question.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Life, Existence, Godot, Waiting For Godot, Cruel Fate

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Our Generation, Laughing, Tears, Godot, Waiting For Godot

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Bored, Awful, Godot, Inertia, Waiting For Godot

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

- Samuel Beckett

source: "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

topic: Moving On, Encouraging, Thinking, Godot, Waiting For Godot

Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.17, Faber & Faber

topic: Dark, Intelligence, Use, Lack Of Understanding, Waiting For Godot

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Too Late, Moments, Mankind, Godot, Waiting For Godot

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Mad, Born, Godot, Waiting For Godot

Nothing is more real than nothing.

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Real, Waiting For Godot

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

- Ian Mckellen

topic: Falling In Love, Children, Winning, Godot, Waiting For Godot

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Life, Hate, Men, Godot, Waiting For Godot

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Men, Littles, Forgotten, Godot, Waiting For Godot

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Time, Night, Light, Godot, Waiting For Godot

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Artist, Tasks, Chaos, Waiting For Godot

We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.72, Faber & Faber

topic: Hands, Bored, Waiting, Bored To Death, Godot

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

- Ian Mckellen

topic: Sweet, Waiting, Theatre, Godot, Waiting For Godot

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Air, Cry, Habit, Godot, Waiting For Godot

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

topic: Fate, Too Late, Chance, Godot, Waiting For Godot

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

- John Lahr

topic: Father, Florida, Two, Arrivals, Godot

Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.

- Barney Rosset

topic: Sex, Waiting, Example, Godot, Decadence

I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great-it travelled into immediate communication.

- Sam Waterston

source: "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

topic: Communication, Inspiration, Yale, Stanislavski, Godot

In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.

- Elliott Sober

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Philosophy, Waiting, Literature, Godot, Waiting For Godot

I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

- Michel Foucault

source: Michel Foucault (2000). “Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel”, p.176, A&C Black

topic: Eye, Waiting, Generations, Godot, Waiting For Godot

I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.

- Patrick Stewart

topic: Years, Play, Waiting, Godot, Waiting For Godot

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

- Gianfranco Fini

source: RaiNews24, November 16, 2007.

topic: Government, Waiting, Godot, Waiting For Godot