Best Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

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.

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.

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

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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

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.

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

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

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.