Samuel Beckett Quotes

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• Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Looks

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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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• The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dies

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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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  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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• Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

  Samuel Beckett

  Clothes

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

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  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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• The end of a life is always vivifying.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Death, Birth

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.206, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

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  Able, Dread, Ifs

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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 bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

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  Cycling, Nasty, Ill

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Mercier and Camier”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

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  Self, Hands, Two

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• All has not been said and never will be.

  Samuel Beckett

  Originality, Said

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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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• Better hope deferred than none.

  Samuel Beckett

  Motivational

  Samuel Beckett (2014). “Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

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  Goes On, Ends, Endgame

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Endgame”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• I had little talent for happiness.

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  Littles, Talent

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

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  Silence, Quiet, Language

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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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Want, Enjoy, Knows

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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.192, Grove Press

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• Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

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  Waiting, Motto, My Motto

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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