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: To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: 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. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: Habit is a great deadener. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. [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: I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: Make sense who may. I switch off. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: Birth was the death of him. [Samuel Beckett]

Quote: 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. [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: Words are all we have. [Samuel Beckett]

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