Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.
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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
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I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
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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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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?
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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)
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Try again. Fail again. Try better.
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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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I had little talent for happiness.
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
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Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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Words are all we have.
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Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
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There's no lack of void.
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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