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1 " You're on Earth. There's no cure for that. "
― Samuel Beckett
2 " The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. "
― Samuel Beckett , Endgame
3 " No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. "
4 " 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. "
― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot
5 " I can't go on, I'll go on. "
― Samuel Beckett , I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
6 " 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. "
7 " Words are the clothes thoughts wear. "
8 " It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. "
― Samuel Beckett , All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
9 " In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? "
― Samuel Beckett , Collected Poems in English and French
10 " The more people I meet the happier I become. "
11 " I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought. "
― Samuel Beckett , Malone Dies
12 " If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love. "
13 " Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. "
― Samuel Beckett , Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
14 " The only sin is the sin of being born "
15 " They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. "
16 " Ah earth you old extinguisher. "
― Samuel Beckett , Happy Days
17 " I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all. "
18 " One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second. "
19 " And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant. "
20 " drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer. "
