Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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