Samuel Beckett Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.”
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
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“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”
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“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.”
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“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
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“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”
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“All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.”
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“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.”
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“What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”
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“To restore silence is the role of objects.”
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“Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.”
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“Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.”
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“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.”
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“I am still alive then. That may come in useful.”
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“It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”
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“To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.”
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“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.”
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“And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.”
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“So all things limp together for the only possible.”
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“Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.”
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“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.”
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“All life long, the same questions, the same answers.”
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“If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.”
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“For 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.”
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“It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.”
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“Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.”
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“To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.”
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