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Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness”

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

“Words are all we have.”

“What do I know of mans destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”

“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”

“It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.”

“The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”

“Where I am, I dont know, Ill never know, in the silence you dont know, you must go on, I cant go on, Ill go on”

“Thats how it is on this bitch of an earth”

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, its the most comical thing in the world.”

“Birth was the death of him.”

“The bastard! He doesnt exist!”

“If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.”

“Theres man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.”

“If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.”

“I cant go on. Ill go on.”

“Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.”

“Habit is a great deadener.”

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