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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More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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