746 Quotes by Samuel Beckett

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

Enough to know no knowing.

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.