Quotes by Samuel Beckett

“You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yo...”

“The more people I meet the happier I become.”

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”

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

“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 forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.”

“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.”

“To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.”

“But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a ...”

“Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”

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

“I always thought old age would be a writers best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memorys gone, all the old fluency...”

“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”

“You must go on.I cant go on.Ill 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?”

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