Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett (41)

Birth:	13th April, 1906
Death:	22nd December, 1989
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwriter

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

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

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• 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.

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• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

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• The only sin is the sin of being born

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• You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.

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

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• Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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• I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

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• I missed you…and at the same time I was happy. Isn’t that a queer thing?

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

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• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

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• Do we mean love, when we say love?

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• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

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• Habit is a great deadener.

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• Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

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• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

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• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

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

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