Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

  Samuel Beckett

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• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Regret

• Habit is a great deadener.

  Samuel Beckett

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• You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Earth, Cute

• Words are all we have.

  Samuel Beckett

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  Tags in Words

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Know, Never

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saints

• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

  Samuel Beckett

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  Tags in Born, Mad

• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Find

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Birth

• There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• That’s how it is on this bitch of an earth.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Earth

• Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bone

• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Unhappiness

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hell

• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Surface

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying

• 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

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  Tags in Right

• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extinction

Samuel Beckett (60)

Birth:	13th April, 1906
Death:	22nd December, 1989
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwriter

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