Godot Quotes

“ Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? ”
― Samuel Beckett

“To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences 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

“He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I am interested in the shape of ideas, even if I do not believe in them”
― Samuel Beckett

“E: Well, shall we go?
V: Yes, let's go.
(They do not move)”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Gimdyti apsižergus kapą ir kančiose gimti. Duobėje duobkasys svajingai tvarkosi įrankius. Lieka laiko susenti. Ore skamba mūsų riksmai.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts peniciline and succedanea in a word(...)”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“V: After having sucked all the good out of him you duck him away like a... like a banana skin.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“A cheval sur une tombe et une naissance difficile. Du fond du trou, rêveusement, le fossoyeur applique ses fers. On a le temps de vieillir. L'air est plein de nos cris.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“VLADIMIR: Dance, hog!”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Balla, maiale!”
― Samuel Beckett

“VLADIMIR: Has he a beard, Mr. Godot?
BOY: Yes Sir.
VLADIMIR: Fair or... or black?
BOY: I think it's white, Sir.
VLADIMIR: Christ have mercy on us!”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“V: After having sucked all the good out of hikike m you duck him away like a... like a banana skin.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“If I had known who Godot is, I would have written it in the script.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“You can't cry yet. The only time a lawyer can cry is when it’s all over.”
― Shu Takumi

“A lawyer is someone who smiles no matter how bad it gets.”
― Shu Takumi

“Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.”
― Samuel Beckett

“MOST PEOPLE IN the West spend their time waiting for Godot, but of course he never comes. They also wait for the Messiah, but we know he always arrives a day too late. What is everyone waiting for? Divine intervention? The Deus ex machina that solves every problem? Don’t you get it? – no one’s ever coming. Ever. The world-historic figures, the men and women of destiny, aren’t waiting. They’re out doing things, being active, making things happen.”
― Adam Weishaupt, The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

“Godot, take your time! I am scrolling the internet.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Pozzo: 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 the speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier that its predecessors Let us not speak well of it either. It is true the population has increased.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot