Top 15 Samuel Beckett Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

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.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.

My mistakes are my life.

"Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot

I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.