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 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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Samuel Beckett

Clothes

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

Samuel Beckett

Dies

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

Samuel Beckett

Life, Dance, Thinking

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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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All has not been said and never will be.

Samuel Beckett

Originality, Said

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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.

Samuel Beckett

Want, Enjoy, Knows

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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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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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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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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

Samuel Beckett

Trying, Synthesizers, Joyce

1981 In the New York Times,19 Apr.

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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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It was the only way to progress, to stop.

Samuel Beckett

Progress, Way

Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.305, 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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Samuel Beckett

Dog, Habit, Chains

Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.

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Long, Answers, Long Life

Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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

Samuel Beckett

Goes On, Ends, Endgame

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

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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Samuel Beckett

Asking For Help, Tone, Helping

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

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To restore silence is the role of objects.

Samuel Beckett

Silence, Roles, Silence Is

Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Samuel Beckett

Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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There's never an end for the sea.

Samuel Beckett

Sea, Ends

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Born: April 13, 1906
Died: December 22, 1989
Occupation: Novelist
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