Tag: Samuel Beckett
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
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Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett
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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.
Samuel Beckett
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
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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.
Samuel Beckett
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I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
Samuel Beckett
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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.
Samuel Beckett
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There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett