Inspirational quotes by Samuel Beckett.
You're on Earth. There's 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 can't go on, I'll 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
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Ah earth you old extinguisher.
I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.
One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.
And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant.
drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.
[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning.
Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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