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.
SAMUEL BECKETTFor 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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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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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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I gave up before birth.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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