Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing is more real than nothing.”
“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”
“let us say before i go any further, that i forgive nobody. i wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come.”
“But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
“Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.”
“I have spoken softly, gone my ways softly, all my days, as behoves one who has nothing to say, nowhere to go, and so nothing to gain by being seen or heard.”
“Live and invent. I have tried. I must have tried. Invent. It is not the word. Neither is to live. No matter. I have tried. [...] I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived afterall, without knowing.”
“I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort. But it is just as well to let myself die, quietly, without rushing things. Something must have changed. I will not weigh upon the balance any more, one way or the other.”
“There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.”
“I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.”
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Book Keywords:
delirium, words, death, language
