Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I gave up before birth.
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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.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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