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So all things limp together for the only possible.
— Samuel Beckett
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
— Samuel Beckett
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
— Samuel Beckett
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
— Samuel Beckett
HAMM: We're not beginning to ... to ... mean something?CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something!
(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! — Samuel Beckett
The essential doesn't change.
— Samuel Beckett
Estragon: we lost our rights?vladimir: we got rid of them. — Samuel Beckett
-What is there to keep me here?-Conversation — Samuel Beckett
All roads were right for me, a wrong road was an event, for me.
— Samuel Beckett
Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.
— Samuel Beckett
At last I began to think, that is to say to listen harder.
— Samuel Beckett
To be together again, after so long, who love the sunny wind, the windy sun, in the sun, in the wind, that is perhaps something, perhaps something.
— Samuel Beckett
Ah earth you old extinguisher.
— Samuel Beckett
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
Clov: If I don't kill the rat, he'll die.Hamm: That's right. — Samuel Beckett
Another happy day.
— Samuel Beckett
We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
— Samuel Beckett
This is slow work. . . .Is it not time for my pain-killer?
— Samuel Beckett
And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.
— Samuel Beckett
Try. Fail. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!
— Samuel Beckett
It's not me, it's not true, it's not me, I'm far.
— Samuel Beckett
The only sin is the sin of being born
— Samuel Beckett
I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
— Samuel Beckett
To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.
— Samuel Beckett
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
Have you shat, my child, I said gently.
— Samuel Beckett
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
— Samuel Beckett
Misfortunes, blessings, I have no time to pick my words, I am in a hurry to be done. And yet no, I am in no hurry.
— Samuel Beckett
Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.
— Samuel Beckett
Your mind, never active at anytime, is now even less than ever so.
— Samuel Beckett
And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.
— Samuel Beckett
So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.
— Samuel Beckett
It was like looking for a needle in a haystack full of vipers.
— Samuel Beckett
I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.
— Samuel Beckett
Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most
— Samuel Beckett
Do we mean love, when we say love?
— Samuel Beckett
Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
— Samuel Beckett
All is tedious, in this relation that is forced upon me.
— Samuel Beckett
And agreement only comes a little later, with the forgetting.
— Samuel Beckett
The little cloud drifting before their glorious sun will darken the earth as long as I please.
— Samuel Beckett
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
— Samuel Beckett
Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
— Samuel Beckett
Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
— Samuel Beckett
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
— Samuel Beckett
There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.
— Samuel Beckett
But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
— Samuel Beckett
How time flies when one has fun!
— Samuel Beckett
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
— Samuel Beckett
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[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.
— Anthony Minghella
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[A]ll I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.
— Samuel Beckett
Estragon: And if he doesn't come?Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes. — Samuel Beckett
Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth.
— Samuel Beckett
Dim light source unknown.
— Samuel Beckett
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
— Samuel Beckett
God is love. Yes or no? No.
— Samuel Beckett
All hangs together, I am in chains.
— Samuel Beckett
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
— Harold Pinter
In a flicker of my lids whole days have flown.
— Samuel Beckett
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
— Samuel Beckett
I thought much about myself. That is to say I often took a quick look at myself, closed my eyes, forgot, began again.
— Samuel Beckett
But it is useless to dwell on this period of my life. If I go on long enough calling that my life I'll end up by believing it.
— Samuel Beckett
Vladimir: That passed the time.Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly. — Samuel Beckett
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
— Samuel Beckett
Fortunately I did not need affection.
— Samuel Beckett
Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.
— Samuel Beckett
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
— Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.
— Terry Teachout
Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.
— Samuel Beckett
Habit is a great deadener.
— Samuel Beckett
Say that again said the red gash in the white putty.
— Samuel Beckett
you don't feel a mouth on you, you don't feel your mouth any more, no need of a mouth, the words are everywhere, inside me, outside me...
— Samuel Beckett
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
— Samuel Beckett
Does it really matter which hand is employed to absterge the podex?
— Samuel Beckett
To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
— Samuel Beckett
Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
— Samuel Beckett
For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming to look for me.
— 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
Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians.
— Samuel Beckett
And I'll be myself at last, as a starveling belches his odourless wind, before the bliss of a coma.
— Samuel Beckett
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
— Samuel Beckett
To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?
— Samuel Beckett
