Samuel Beckett Quotes & Sayings

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

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

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

“I can't go on. I'll go on.”

“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.”

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

“Habit is a great deadener.”

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

“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.”

“Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”