I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
-
-
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
People are bloody ignorant apes.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Then 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.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
SAMUEL BECKETT -
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!
SAMUEL BECKETT -
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETT -
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETT