Samuel Beckett Quotes

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Samuel Beckett Quote: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Fail, fail again, fail better.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “What are we doing here, that is the question.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Nothing is more real than nothing.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “We all are born mad. Some remain so.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me!”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we’re magicians.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “How hideous is the semicolon.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “God is love. Yes or no? No.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “People are bloody ignorant apes.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Make sense who may. I switch off.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Estragon: I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Words are all we have.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I am still alive then. That may come in useful.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “ESTRAGON: I can’t go on like this. VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Imagination at wit’s end spreads its sad wings.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “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.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “That penny farthing hell you call your mind.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “My mistakes are my life.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I love order. It’s my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Habit is a great deadener.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Sloth is all passions the most powerful.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Do we mean love, when we say love?”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The only sin is the sin of being born.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Love requited is a short circuit.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation – Time.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It’d give us an erection.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Two in distressmake sorrow less.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The essential doesn’t change.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “What is that unforgettable line?”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Estragon: Nothing to be done.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Words fail, there are times when even they fail.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don’t understand how it can be endured.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “God is a witness that cannot be sworn.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “How time flies when one has fun!”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Dying for dark – the darker the worse. Strange.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “Art has always been this – pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric – whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “It was the only way to progress, to stop.”

Samuel Beckett Quote: “The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.”

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