Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Birth was the death of him.
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