Texts For Nothing Quotes

“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this, saying it's me? Answer simply, someone answer simply.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“That is why nothing appears, all is silent, one is frightened to be born, no, one wishes one were, so as to begin to die.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“...this evening it's too late, too late to get things right, I'll go to sleep, so that I may say, hear myself say, a little later, I've slept, he's slept, but he won't have slept, or else he's sleeping now, he'll have done nothing, nothing but go on, doing what, doing what he does, that is to say, I don't know, giving up, that's it, I'll have gone on giving up, having had nothing, not being there.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“With a cluther of limbs and organs, all that is needed to live again, to hold out a little time, I'll call that living, I'll say it's me, I'll get standing, I'll stop thinking, I'll be too busy, getting standing, staying standing, stirring about, holding out, getting to tomorrow, tomorrow week, that will be ample, a week will be ample, a week in spring, that puts the jizz in you.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“...then much, then little, then nothing.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976