Quotes from Samuel Beckett

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.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

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

He can't think without his hat.

Language is best used where it is most efficiently abused.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

What I'd like now is to speak of the things that are left, say my goodbyes, finish dying.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!)

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Habit is a great deadener.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

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.

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

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

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

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.