Samuel Beckett Dark Quotations

You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

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

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from anywhere further away. Nor for in the end again by degrees or as though switched on dark falls there again that certain dark that alone certain ashes can. Through it who knows yet another end beneath a cloudless sky of a last end if ever there had to be another absolutely had to be.

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)