Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. S
  4. Samuel Beckett
  5. Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of...

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

Samuel Beckett
Fire, Years, Gone
Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.28, Faber & Faber
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.