I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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