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.

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  Silence, Looks

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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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• There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

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  Writing, Two, Paper

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

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  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

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  Want, Enjoy, Knows

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• The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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  Alternatives, Sun, Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.71, 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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• Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

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  Clothes

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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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• The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

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  Bears, Grudge, Whisky

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

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  Mistake, Stories, Enough

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.93, Grove Press

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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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• 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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  Running, Flying, Calm

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What are we doing here, that is the question.

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  Life, Waiting For Godot, Godot

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

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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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• The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

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  Time, Blind, Notion

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People are bloody ignorant apes.

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  People, Ignorant, Apes

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.357, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

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  Too Late, Waiting For Godot, Moments

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

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• I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

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  Mean, Use, Taught

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.51, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's never an end for the sea.

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  Sea, Ends

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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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  Knowing, Soul, Want

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

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• With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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  Darkness, Feels, Rounds

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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

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  Dog, Habit, Chains

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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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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