You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT
SAMUEL BECKETT
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The essential doesn’t change.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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The more you suffer, the more you awaken.
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Ana SoulfulAna Soulful The right person will never get tired of you.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
Nikita GillNikita Gill We all carry the heaviest anchors without anyone having a clue about it.
Aaron BellAaron Bell And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
ParacelsusParacelsus Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
ParacelsusParacelsus What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
ParacelsusParacelsus Maybe it won’t be cured, but you’ve got to take the medication you’re prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
Adam AntAdam Ant he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]
Abu Nu'aymAbu Nu'aym They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable.
Abram HofferAbram Hoffer I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone.
Abram HofferAbram Hoffer I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.
Abraham J. TwerskiAbraham J. Twerski