Samuel Beckett Quotes

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• Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Looks

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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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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  World, Creation, All Time

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

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  Earth, Cures, Space Travel

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Endgame”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

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  Believe, Trying, Matter

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

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  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

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  Clothes

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• All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

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  Waiting For Godot, Godot, Cruel Fate

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• Better hope deferred than none.

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  Motivational

  Samuel Beckett (2014). “Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

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  Eye, Ostriches, Fool

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

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  Self, Hands, Two

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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  Nothing is more real than nothing.

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  Real, Waiting For Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

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  Life Is, Habit, Succession

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”, Riverrun Press

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• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Grieving, Tragedy, Goes On

  The Unnamable (1959)

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• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

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• That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Loneliness, Men

  Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Stydenstricker Buck, Ivan Alekseevič Bunin (1971). “Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Buck [and] Ivan Bunin”

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• My mistakes are my life.

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  Mistake, My Mistakes

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.503, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Love, Love You, Ifs

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Collected Poems in English and French”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

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  Goes On, Ends, Endgame

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Endgame”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

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  Waiting, Motto, My Motto

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What do we do now, now that we are happy?

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  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.415, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Able, Dread, Ifs

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mysterious affair, electricity.

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  Science, Mysterious, Affair

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Ends and Odds”, p.81, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Asking For Help, Tone, Helping

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.62, Grove Press

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• Birth was the death of him.

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  Death, Birth

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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