More from Samuel 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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett People are bloody ignorant apes.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Better hope deferred than none.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on life
Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.
Rakesh JhunjhunwalaRakesh Jhunjhunwala Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
John C. MaxwellJohn C. Maxwell There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov