“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.”
“Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”
“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”
“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.”
“Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me!”
“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
“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.”
“How hideous is the semicolon.”
“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.”
“That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.”
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.”
“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”
“People are bloody ignorant apes.”
“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
“God is love. Yes or no? No.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.”
“Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.”
“There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.”
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
“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’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 have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”
“Words are all we have.”
“All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.”
“Imagination at wit’s end spreads its sad wings.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”
“Love requited is a short circuit.”
“Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.”
“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
“James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.”
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