70+ Samuel Beckett Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Born Death Live Myself
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Intelligence Mindset Myself Right Wonder
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Cry Dead Greatness Growth Habit Old Time
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
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.
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Death Enjoyment Myself
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
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.
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Kind Mouth Myself Open Thinking Word
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
Nothing is more real than nothing.
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One Liner Reality
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
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.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
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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Fear Invention Myself Question
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
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!
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Moments Place Time
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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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Conversation Myself Polite Try

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