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

  Samuel Beckett

  Crazy, Way, Born

  1955 Waiting for Godot, act 2.

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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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• We are all born; some remain so.

  Samuel Beckett

  Psychological, Born

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• All has not been said and never will be.

  Samuel Beckett

  Originality, Said

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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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• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Grieving, Tragedy, Goes On

  The Unnamable (1959)

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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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• 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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  If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Love You, Ifs

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Collected Poems in English and French”, 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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Ostriches, Fool

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

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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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• That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

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  Time, Monsters, Damnation

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.461, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

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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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  What Matters, Who I Am, Knowing

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.219, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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