746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

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.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

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

[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

Birth was the death of him.

The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.