Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
SAMUEL BECKETTThen 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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