Samuel Beckett Quotes

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Try, Again, Matter

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Try, Again, Fail

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Failure, Time, Try

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett

Nothing, Yes, Funnier

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.
Samuel Beckett

Down, Hell, Off

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

Silence, Word, Stain

I can't go on. I'll go on.
Samuel Beckett

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett

Feet, Fault, Blaming

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett

Nothing, Writing, Silence

We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett

Mad, Born, Remain

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

Love, Loved, Shall

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.
Samuel Beckett

True, Laugh, Same

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett

Trying, Leave, Bring

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

Rich, University, Ireland

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
Samuel Beckett

Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett

Death, Him, Birth

Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett

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

State, Shall, Vertigo

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

Body, Throw, Window

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

Business, Long, Nothing

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett

Find, Artist, Task

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett

Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett

Next, Landscape, Precision

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

Night, Give, Light

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Playwright

Born: April 13, 1906

Died: December 22, 1989

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