Better hope deferred than none.
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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Birth was the death of him.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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There 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.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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