Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
SAMUEL BECKETTMemories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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