Samuel Beckett Quotes

No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.

My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.

That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

There’s my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don’t say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that’s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word.

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

Dance first. Think later. Its the natural order! Or at least its mine anyways.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what is it to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

La fin est dans le commencement et cependant on continue.

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.