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Samuel Beckett Quotes: 18

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Waiting for Godot
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
I can't go on, I'll go on.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Endgame
The only sin is the sin of being born
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
Waiting for Godot
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning.
Collected Poems in English and French
Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen. by Samuel Beckett
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
Collected Poems in English and French
Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted.
Embers
You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.
The Unnamable