Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Looks

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• The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dies

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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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Trying, Matter

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• Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

  Samuel Beckett

  Clothes

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  The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

  Samuel Beckett

  World, Creation, All Time

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

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Earth, Cures, Space Travel

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

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  Nothing is more real than nothing.

  Samuel Beckett

  Real, Waiting For Godot

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Able, Dread, Ifs

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

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• What was God doing with himself before the creation?

  Samuel Beckett

  Creation

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.161, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

  Samuel Beckett

  Crazy, Way, Born

  1955 Waiting for Godot, act 2.

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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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Self, Hands, Two

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

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• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  Samuel Beckett

  Artist, Tasks, Chaos

  "Why music struck a chord with Beckett" by Sean Doran, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2014.

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• Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dog, Habit, Chains

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

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• Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

  Samuel Beckett

  Perception, Experience, Vulgar

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

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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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Knowing, Soul, Want

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Habit is a great deadener.

  Samuel Beckett

  Habit

  Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Life Is, Habit, Succession

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

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• Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspiring, Failure, Trying

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Ostriches, Fool

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

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• My mistakes are my life.

  Samuel Beckett

  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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• I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Alive, May, Stills

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.236, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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