Quotes from Samuel Beckett

To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

The short winters day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.

My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Better hope deferred than none.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

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

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

past moments old dreams back again or fresh like those that pass or things things always and memories I say them as I hear them murmur them in the mud

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

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

Clov: Do you believe in the life to come?Hamm: Mine was always like that.

I'm not unhappy enough. [Pause.] That was always my unhap, unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Birth was the death of him.