"I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify wi...
You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.
More Samuel Beckett quotes
"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.
"Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?Estragon: I don't kno...
"Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
"It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
"In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
"How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
"Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
"I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up an...
"But it is only since I have ceased to live that I think of these things and the other things. It is in the tranquillity of decomposition that I rememb...
"For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might b...
"[I]f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, to have done. Oh, I know, even when you mention on...
"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no n...