Samuel Beckett quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so. (Samuel Beckett)
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
Samuel Beckett
Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
The only sin is the sin of being born.
Samuel Beckett
Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.
Samuel Beckett
I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
Samuel Beckett
Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. (Samuel Beckett)
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.
Samuel Beckett
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
Samuel Beckett
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
Samuel Beckett
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett
I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don't know. (Samuel Beckett)
Yes, I don't know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.
Samuel Beckett
I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
Samuel Beckett
Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
Samuel Beckett