746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream.

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

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

The more people I meet the happier I become.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.