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.
SAMUEL BECKETTBetter hope deferred than none.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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