Quotes from Samuel Beckett
The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
- Samuel Beckett
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
- Samuel Beckett
Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
- Samuel Beckett
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
- Samuel Beckett
I had little talent for happiness.
- Samuel Beckett
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
- Samuel Beckett
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.
- Samuel Beckett
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
- Samuel Beckett
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
- Samuel Beckett
Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.
- Samuel Beckett
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
- Samuel Beckett
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
- Samuel Beckett