Quotes by
Samuel Beckett |
1906-1989 , Irish writer, Nobel 1969
Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Best known for his plays, especially Waiting for Godot (1952).He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Quotations
| • | In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead. 28 |
| • | When you're in the shit up to your neck, there's nothing left to do but sing. 8 |
| • | Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. 7 |
| • | Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto. 7 |
| • | God is a witness that cannot be sworn. 7 |
| • | You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on. 6 |
| • | I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. 5 |
| • | But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes. 5 |
| • | The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. (first phrase of “Murphy”) 4 |
| • | - Do you believe in the life to come? - Mine was always that. 4 |
| • | We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? 4 |
| • | Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. 4 |
| • | Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful. 4 |
| • | Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. 4 |
| • | You're on Earth. There's no cure for that. 4 |
| • | The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. 3 |
| • | Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! 3 |
| • | We are all born mad. Some remain so. 3 |
| • | I felt weak, perhaps I was. 3 |
| • | The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. 3 |
| • | If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot. 3 |
| • | The only sin is the sin of being born. 3 |
