Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in ...
SAMUEL BECKETT All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to r...
SAMUEL BECKETT I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
SAMUEL BECKETT All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail bette...
SAMUEL BECKETT The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.
SAMUEL BECKETT We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
SAMUEL BECKETT To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that on...
SAMUEL BECKETT Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more will...
SAMUEL BECKETT I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the ...
SAMUEL BECKETT Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, t...
SAMUEL BECKETT Words are all we have.
SAMUEL BECKETT Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
SAMUEL BECKETT Make sense who may. I switch off.
SAMUEL BECKETT How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularl...
SAMUEL BECKETT The bastard! He doesn't exist!
SAMUEL BECKETT Habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETT There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETT The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being...
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in th...
SAMUEL BECKETT Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the e...
SAMUEL BECKETT Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear m...
SAMUEL BECKETT I can't go on. I'll go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT We are all born mad. Some remain so.
SAMUEL BECKETT Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
SAMUEL BECKETT With all this darkness round me I feel less alone. In a way. I love to get up and move about in it, ...
SAMUEL BECKETT Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETT We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
SAMUEL BECKETT And I was wondering how to depart without self-loathing or sadness, or with as little as possible, w...
SAMUEL BECKETT I can't go on, I'll go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
SAMUEL BECKETT James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to l...
SAMUEL BECKETT Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
SAMUEL BECKETT Some are born mad. Some remain so.
SAMUEL BECKETT The major sin is the sin of being born.
SAMUEL BECKETT Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but...
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go...
SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, witho...
SAMUEL BECKETT The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature y...
SAMUEL BECKETT I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for Go...
SAMUEL BECKETT Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT Real scratching is superior to masturbation, in my opinion.
SAMUEL BECKETT You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
SAMUEL BECKETT The only sin is the sin of being born
SAMUEL BECKETT Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.
SAMUEL BECKETT Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
SAMUEL BECKETT There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
SAMUEL BECKETT Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
SAMUEL BECKETT there is [...]
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be lo...
SAMUEL BECKETT Real scratching is superior to masturbation, in my opinion. One can masturbate up to the age of seve...
SAMUEL BECKETT I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. B...
SAMUEL BECKETT Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
SAMUEL BECKETT Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world...
SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inab...
SAMUEL BECKETT The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.
SAMUEL BECKETT Vladimir: Did I ever leave you?
Estragon: You let me go.
SAMUEL BECKETT The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a viol...
SAMUEL BECKETT I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longe...
SAMUEL BECKETT Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better...
SAMUEL BECKETT They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more
SAMUEL BECKETT It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go t...
SAMUEL BECKETT The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
SAMUEL BECKETT What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the ear...
SAMUEL BECKETT And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or becau...
SAMUEL BECKETT Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do,...
SAMUEL BECKETT With his two hands he props up his jaw. He passes without a word. Perhaps he does not see me. One of...
SAMUEL BECKETT Fortunately I did not need affection.
SAMUEL BECKETT que ferais-je sans ce monde

que ferais-je sans ce monde sans visage sans questions
...
SAMUEL BECKETT That's how it is on this bitch of an earth
SAMUEL BECKETT For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.
SAMUEL BECKETT We all are born mad. Some remain so.
SAMUEL BECKETT I could not distinguish one modern work of art from another, but he taught me the difference between...
SAMUEL BECKETT My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that h...
SAMUEL BECKETT Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the ...
SAMUEL BECKETT Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go...
SAMUEL BECKETT I can't go on. I'll go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the p...
SAMUEL BECKETT I missed you...and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a queer thing?
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
SAMUEL BECKETT What is that unforgettable line?
SAMUEL BECKETT Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want ...
SAMUEL BECKETT And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong,...
SAMUEL BECKETT Let them be gone now, them and all the others, those I have used and those I have not used, give me ...
SAMUEL BECKETT The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small ...
SAMUEL BECKETT Was I asleep? Had I slept?
SAMUEL BECKETT Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed th...
SAMUEL BECKETT The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad...
SAMUEL BECKETT I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
SAMUEL BECKETT No symbols where none intended.
SAMUEL BECKETT Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual...
SAMUEL BECKETT Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETT The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
SAMUEL BECKETT There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
SAMUEL BECKETT It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd di...
SAMUEL BECKETT POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future.
SAMUEL BECKETT The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al...
SAMUEL BECKETT I was mad of course and still am, but harmless, I passed for harmless, that's a good one. Not of cou...
SAMUEL BECKETT I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no ...
SAMUEL BECKETT Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett, Wors...
SAMUEL BECKETT Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back....
SAMUEL BECKETT Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
SAMUEL BECKETT I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be s...
SAMUEL BECKETT I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETT What mattered to me in my dispeopled kingdom, that in regard to which the disposition of my carcass ...
SAMUEL BECKETT In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETT Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

Samuel BECKETT, En a...
SAMUEL BECKETT أستطيع أن أميز بين الأصوات الخارجية.أوراق الشجر،تأوه ا...
SAMUEL BECKETT On. Stare on. Say on. Be on. Somehow on. Anyhow on. Till dim gone. At long last gone. All at long la...
SAMUEL BECKETT Fail better worse now.
SAMUEL BECKETT No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its wa...
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETT When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL BECKETT VLADIMIR: What do they say?
ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives.
VLADIMIR: To have lived...
SAMUEL BECKETT There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because ye...
SAMUEL BECKETT Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth, there's no cure for that!
SAMUEL BECKETT The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments ...
SAMUEL BECKETT I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the e...
SAMUEL BECKETT How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
SAMUEL BECKETT Il y a une goutte d'eau dans ma tête. (Un temps) Un coeur, un coeur dans ma tête.
SAMUEL BECKETT Clov: Why this farce, day after day?
Hamm: Routine. One never knows. [Pause.] Last night I saw...
SAMUEL BECKETT ХАМ: Клов!
КЛОВ: Какво има?
ХАМ: Ние в момента... не д...
SAMUEL BECKETT If I could drag myself down to the sea! I'd make a pillow sand for my head and the tide would come.
SAMUEL BECKETT We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no...
SAMUEL BECKETT Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis footb...
SAMUEL BECKETT The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin...
BERNARD BECKETT Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is...
BERNARD BECKETT My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly...
MARGARET BECKETT I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books...
BERNARD BECKETT Caravanning can be as simple or as luxurious as you choose. My own experience is probably not dissim...
MARGARET BECKETT You reap what you sow.
JOSH BECKETT Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is...
BERNARD BECKETT I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely ...
BERNARD BECKETT I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want...
BERNARD BECKETT It's going to be a deal where, 'Hey, I got to get this guy out of here. We've got guys in the bullpe...
JOSH BECKETT Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperatio...
MARGARET BECKETT You've got to be a little more careful in those situations. You reap what you sew.
JOSH BECKETT I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the ma...
BERNARD BECKETT I wanted to make a point. You look like a jackass whenever you hit the ball like that and you're pim...
JOSH BECKETT It's not like I wanted to fight. I just wanted to make the point that you look like a jackass when y...
JOSH BECKETT I hope the balminess of the morning is the warming of our collective consciousness.
CHERYL BECKETT Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the ...
BERNARD BECKETT This ain't locked up for anybody. Every game is crucial from now on. There's not an easy game left f...
JOSH BECKETT Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
BERNARD BECKETT We're going to need some luck. We have to have some people lose.
JOSH BECKETT People absolutely embraced such a concept.
CHERYL BECKETT It's weird seeing Luis in another uniform. I think he signed with the Marlins when he was like 4.
JOSH BECKETT [Taking a lighter view of the] ILOVEYOU ... sorry or pleased that as far as I'm aware, I have not re...
MARGARET BECKETT Innovation needs to be encouraged so that land managers can seize opportunities related to climate c...
MARGARET BECKETT You can almost never say that a particular event is caused by climate change,
MARGARET BECKETT I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,
MARGARET BECKETT The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory...
MARGARET BECKETT Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becomin...
MARGARET BECKETT The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.
BERNARD BECKETT I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
BERNARD BECKETT I haven't heard anything yet, ... Actually, I'm a little excited about it.
JOSH BECKETT ... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear i...
BERNARD BECKETT I've got a Minor League game on Friday. I just need to keep the intensity and stay focused and get o...
JOSH BECKETT There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems oursel...
MARGARET BECKETT You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of clima...
MARGARET BECKETT I have to tell you that, sadly, this affectionate greeting contains a virus which has immobilized th...
MARGARET BECKETT Bush agreed in Gleneagles that climate change was urgent.
MARGARET BECKETT I am therefore announcing today our decision to set up a fundamental review of the agency.
MARGARET BECKETT It is imperative that we find new ways to cooperate and develop a shared understanding of how the wo...
MARGARET BECKETT Technology is essential to make the transition to a low-carbon economy and targets ... have a vital ...
MARGARET BECKETT The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technolo...
MARGARET BECKETT sorry or pleased that as far as I'm aware, I have not received an e-mail saying 'I love you.'
MARGARET BECKETT Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful ...
BERNARD BECKETT And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to ...
CHRIS BECKETT It was fine. I threw 48 pitches and that was about it. The numbers could have been better, but we'll...
JOSH BECKETT Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
BERNARD BECKETT I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in s...
BERNARD BECKETT