Samuel Beckett Quotes

Irish - Playwright April 13, 1906 - December 22, 1989

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

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

Motivational, Better, Try, Matter, Tried

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Silence, I Am, You, Know, Never, Go

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

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

Silence, Like, Every, Word, Nothingness

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

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Funny, Born, Mad, Some, Remain

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

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

Artist, Find, Mess, Now, Task, Form

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

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

Love, Me, Loved, You, Love Me, Love You

Birth was the death of him.

Death, Birth, Him

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.

I Am, I Can, Trying, Leave, Out, Bring

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.

Words, Handsome, Beginning, Dead, Long

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

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

Landscape, Next, Extinction, Precision

Top 10
Samuel Beckett
Quotes

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

You, World, Nothing, Than, Most, Yes

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.

Tears, World, Laugh, Quality, True, Same

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. - Samuel Beckett

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

Faults, Them, Changing, Tune

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

Sea, Me, Believe, Thought, Together, End

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

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

You, Earth, Cure

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

Light, Night, Birth, More, Give, Grave

Habit is a great deadener. - Samuel Beckett

Habit is a great deadener.

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

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

Man, You, Feet, Fault, Boots, Over

Words are all we have. - Samuel Beckett

Words are all we have.

Communication, Words

Do we mean love, when we say love? - Samuel Beckett

Do we mean love, when we say love?

Love, Say, Mean

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

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

Window, Body, Out, Throw, Use, Would

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

Silence, Writing, Nothing, Matters, Been

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

People, Our, Boast, How, Much, Many

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. - Samuel Beckett

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Pick, Bone, Personally, Graveyards

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

Funny, Man, You, Destiny, Know, More

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.

Me, Shine, Look, Hell, Down, Go

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