Endgame Beckett Quotes

#1. Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Harold Bloom

#2. There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.

Simon McBurney

#3. Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.

Samuel Beckett

#4. I got to belch my witch; she's done eating by now.

William Goldman

#5. Clov: If I don't kill the rat, he'll die.
Hamm: That's right.

Samuel Beckett

#6. The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky

#7. Hamm: What's he doing?
(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)
Clov: He's crying.
(He closes lid, straightens up)
Hamm: Then he's living.

Samuel Beckett

#8. You should know that if we do fucking kill you, the we'll just delete you. You got that? One click and then you're overwriten with random ones and zeros. Undelete is not an option.

Neil Gaiman

#9. It was the end of something - if not his innocence, at least of his faith that things would always happen gradually enough to afford time to do something about it in.

Thomas Pynchon

#10. The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman
a matter of millimetres.

Ian Fleming

#11. If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

Bethenny Frankel

#12. The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

Boutros Boutros-Ghali