Quotes from Samuel Beckett
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
- Samuel Beckett
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
- Samuel Beckett
God is love. Yes or no? No.
- Samuel Beckett
Lick your neighbor as yourself!
- Samuel Beckett
Love requited is a short circuit.
- Samuel Beckett
Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.
- Samuel Beckett
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
- Samuel Beckett
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
- Samuel Beckett
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
- Samuel Beckett
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Two in distressmake sorrow less.
- Samuel Beckett