Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETTWith all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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 has not been said and never will be.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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