With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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 creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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My mistakes are my life.
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