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 BECKETTSometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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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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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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