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.
SAMUEL BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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