We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Better hope deferred than none.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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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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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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