746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

Soon his body was quiet.

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or because about me all goes really silent, from time to time, whereas for the righteous the tumult of the world never stops.

HAMM: Sit on him!CLOV: I can't sit.HAMM: True. And I can't stand.CLOV: So it is.HAMM: Every man his speciality.

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt.

HAMM: And yet I hesitate, I hesitate to...to end. Yes, there it is, it's time it ended and yet I hesitate to - [he yawns] - to end.

I did not know where to begin nor where to end, that's the truth of the matter.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)