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.
SAMUEL BECKETTI gave up before birth.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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