Birth was the death of him.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Do we mean love, when we say love?
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Habit is a great deadener.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

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.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

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

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.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

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.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
- Samuel Beckett Quote

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 on, I'll go on.
- Samuel Beckett Quote

Words are all we have.
- Samuel Beckett Quote