SAMUEL BECKETT QUOTES

Irish novelist & playwright (1906-1989)

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Better hope deferred than none.

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Tags: hope

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

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The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Worstward Ho!

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We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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Waiting for Godot

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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

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"Proust", Samuel Beckett: Poems

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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

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Molloy

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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

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Waiting for Godot

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In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

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Molloy

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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

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Molloy

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My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.

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Endgame

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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

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Waiting for Godot

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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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Eleutheria

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Tags: death

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

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Malone Dies

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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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Krapp's Last Tape

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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

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Watt

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past moments old dreams back again or fresh like those that pass or things things always and memories I say them as I hear them murmur them in the mud

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How It Is

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Let us not waste our time in idle discourse!

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Waiting for Godot

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

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett

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all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

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How It Is

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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

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Proust

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