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Samuel Beckett Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy
Tagged: Knowledge, Desire, Intelligence, Wisdom, information, Curiosity
“You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that!”
— Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Tagged: Earth, World, suffering on earth, suffering in the world, Living, Life
“If I do not love you I shall not love.”
— Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French
Tagged: Irony, Love, Honesty
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett, How the 20th Century’s Most Depressing Writer Became the Poster Child for Silicon Valley Success
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Failure, Trying
“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Tagged: Blame, blaming others, blaming external things, Life
“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, Endgame
Tagged: Words, Silence, Knowledge, Teach
“We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Tagged: Time, Growing Old, Habit
“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.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Tagged: Crying, Tears, Laughter
“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, The Unnamable
Tagged: Speak, Silence, Solitude
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”
— Samuel Beckett, Proust
Tagged: Creation, World, everyday
“Vladimir: Did I ever leave you?
Estragon: You let me go.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Tagged: Love, Relationships, love & relationship, breakup, Heartbreak
“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
— Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Tagged: End, Beginning, Death
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Tagged: Loneliness, Emptiness, Nothing New
“Nothing is more real than nothing.”
— Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
Tagged: Nothing, real
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
— Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Tagged: Unhappiness, Funny
“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Tagged: Existence, purpose, Mind, Reason, Self-awareness
“If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.”
— Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
Tagged: dead, Stand, Appreciation
“They say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. They don't see me, they don't see what my life is, they don't see what I live on, and they say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. I have lived on it until I'm old. Old enough.”
— Samuel Beckett, The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Tagged: Cascando, Samuel Beckett, obstinacy, obliviousness
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
Tagged: Success, Failure, Dreams, Motivational
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
— Samuel Beckett, Murphy
Tagged: first lines of books
“Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Tagged: Torment, Suffering, End, Time
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