Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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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 gave up before birth.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Birth was the death of him.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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