Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

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

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

All has not been said and never will be.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

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.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

The essential doesn't change.

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

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

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

It was the only way to progress, to stop.