Samuel Beckett quotes

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
- Samuel Beckett

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
- Samuel Beckett

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
- Samuel Beckett

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.
- Samuel Beckett

What do we do now, now that we are happy?
- Samuel Beckett

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
- Samuel Beckett

You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
- Samuel Beckett

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
- Samuel Beckett

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
- Samuel Beckett

All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
- Samuel Beckett

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
- Samuel Beckett

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
- Samuel Beckett

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
- Samuel Beckett

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
- Samuel Beckett

My mistakes are my life.
- Samuel Beckett

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
- Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Better hope deferred than none.
- Samuel Beckett

If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
- Samuel Beckett

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
- Samuel Beckett