“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett
“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”
“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
“Fail, fail again, fail better.”
“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”
“Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”
“Where am I, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”
“What are we doing here, that is the question.”
“Nothing is more real than nothing.”
“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”
“We all are born mad. Some remain so.”
“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”
“Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me!”
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
“How hideous is the semicolon.”
“He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”
“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we’re magicians.”
“What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come.”
“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.”
“That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.”
“Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”
“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
“People are bloody ignorant apes.”
“God is love. Yes or no? No.”
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.”
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.”
“There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.”
“When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”
“Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.”
“I am still alive then. That may come in useful.”
“If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.”
“Make sense who may. I switch off.”
“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”
“ESTRAGON: I can’t go on like this. VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.”
“James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.”
“My mistakes are my life.”
“All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.”
“Words are all we have.”
“Estragon: I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
“If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”
“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”
“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”
“Imagination at wit’s end spreads its sad wings.”
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
“But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.”
“Do we mean love, when we say love?”
“Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.”
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