Facts about Samuel Beckett

Occup.	Playwright
From	Ireland
Born	April 13, 1906
Died	December 22, 1989
Aged	83 years

Summary

Samuel Beckett was a famous Playwright from Ireland, who lived between April 13, 1906 and December 22, 1989. He/she became 83 years old.

Our collection contains 32 quotes who is written / told by Samuel.

32 Famous quotes by Samuel Beckett

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

Samuel Beckett

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

Samuel Beckett

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

Samuel Beckett

"Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick"

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

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"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"

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

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"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness"

Samuel Beckett

"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards"

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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better"

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"Birth was the death of him"

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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead"

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"Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it"

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

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"Habit is a great deadener"

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"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning"

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

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"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them"

Samuel Beckett

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

Samuel Beckett

"Do we mean love, when we say love?"

Samuel Beckett

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence"

Samuel Beckett

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

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"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss"

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

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"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window"

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"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter"

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"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"

Samuel Beckett

"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity"

Samuel Beckett

"Words are all we have"

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

Samuel Beckett

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better"

Samuel Beckett

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

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