Quotes from Samuel Beckett

If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

Habit is a great deadener.

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.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There's never an end for the sea.

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

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

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

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

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

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

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

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

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.

The only sin is the sin of being born

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

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