Endgame & Act Without Words

CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.

HAMM Open the window. CLOV What for? HAMM I want to hear the sea. CLOV You wouldn't hear it. HAMM Even if you opened the window? CLOV No. HAMM Then it's not worth opening it? CLOV No. HAMM(violently) Then open it!

You weep, and weep, for nothing, so as not to laugh, and little by little . . . you begin to grieve.

CLOV [sadly] No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.

There’s something dripping in my head. [Pause.] A heart, a heart in my head.

One day you’ll say to yourself, I’m tired, I’ll sit down, and you’ll go and sit down. Then you’ll say, I’m hungry, I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up. You’ll say, I shouldn’t have sat down, but since I have I’ll sit on a little longer, then I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up and you won’t get anything to eat. [Pause.] You’ll look at the wall a while, then you’ll say, I’ll close my eyes, perhaps have a little sleep, after that I’ll feel better, and you’ll close them. And when you open them again there’ll be no wall any more. [Pause.] Infinite emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn’t fill it, and there you’ll be like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe. [Pause.]

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.