Quotes by Samuel Beckett

“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”

“Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it”

“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, its awful.”

“In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.”

Youre on Earth. Theres no cure for that.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

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

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I cant go on, Ill go on.

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

The more people I meet the happier I become.

I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.

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

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

The only sin is the sin of being born