"It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.












Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
More Samuel Beckett quotes
"HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)
"CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that.
"I can't go on, I'll go on.
"And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly the one which offered itself to me. And what I saw w...
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.