Samuel Beckett Quotes
Samuel Beckett Quotes
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
2213 And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant.
4354 All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
4232 But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
4870 There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
4081 I can't go on, I'll go on.
1440 You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.
2573 The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
2983 No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
1996 The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
1248 Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
3214 It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
1821 In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
2130 The more people I meet the happier I become.
2073 The only sin is the sin of being born
1840 They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
3127 I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.
1382 Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
2624 POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future.
1806 Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.
3121 It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
3666 Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.
3719 Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.
1946 Was I asleep? Had I slept?
3728 Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
2677 But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream.
1791 To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
1551 To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
4317 Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.
4096 ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you?
ESTRAGON: You let me go.
3886 Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
1284 As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
3087 Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?
Henry: Not a living soul.
Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted.
3915 Lo que hay que evitar, no sé por qué, es el espíritu de sistema.
4055 If you do not love me I shall not be loved.
If I do not love you I shall not love.
1697 Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.
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