Samuel Beckett quotes - page 6

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. (Samuel Beckett)
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. View quote
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. View quote
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Consider: the darkening ease, the brightening trouble; the pleasure pleasure because it was, the pain pain because it shall be; the glad acts grown proud, the proud acts growing stubborn; the panting and trembling towards a being gone, a being to come; and the true true no longer, and the false true not yet. And to decide not to smile after all, sitting in the shade, hearing the cicadas, wishing it were night, wishing it were morning, saying, No, it is not the heart, no, it is not the liver, no, it is not the prostate, no, it is not the ovaries, no, it is muscular, it is nervous. View quote
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Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see ... the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me. View quote
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day. View quote
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. View quote
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. View quote
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I can't go on. I'll go on. (Samuel Beckett)
All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante. View quote
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. View quote
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You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness. View quote
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Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly. View quote
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Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on. View quote
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They didn't say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication. View quote
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Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms. View quote
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I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill. View quote
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For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself. View quote
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To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets. (Samuel Beckett)
What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. View quote
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What they were most determined for me to swallow was my fellow creatures. In this they were without mercy. View quote
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I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name. View quote
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What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. View quote
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