Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Irish dramatist and novelist

Lived from: 1906 - 1989

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 13 april 1906 Died: 22 december 1989

  • To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

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  • Birth was the death of him.
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  • The bastard! He doesn't exist!
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  • Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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  • Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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  • Habit is a great deadener.
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  • I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while.
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  • I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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  • Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
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  • Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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  • Make sense who may. I switch off.
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  • Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.
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  • Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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  • Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
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  • Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
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  • Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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  • The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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  • There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
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  • There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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  • Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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  • To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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What are the most famous quotes from Samuel Beckett?

The two most famous quotes from Samuel Beckett are:

  • "Birth was the death of him."
  • "The bastard! He doesn't exist!"

When did Samuel Beckett live?

Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 and died in the year 1989.