More from Samuel Beckett
Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
Samuel BeckettSamuel 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 BeckettSamuel Beckett That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Nothing is more real than nothing.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett What do we do now, now that we are happy?
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett
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Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
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