More from Samuel Beckett
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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
Toni MorrisonToni Morrison What goes up must come down.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
John MuirJohn Muir Eat to live, don’t live to eat.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde You can’t see the picture when you’re in the frame.
Les BrownLes Brown There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger
