Fail Better Quotes by Samuel Beckett

“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned…

— Samuel Beckett

“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”

— Samuel Beckett

To what will love not stoop!

— Samuel Beckett

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

— Samuel Beckett

“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these…

— Samuel Beckett

“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,…

— Samuel Beckett

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in…

— Samuel Beckett

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

— Samuel Beckett

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to…

— Samuel Beckett

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

— Samuel Beckett

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.…

— Samuel Beckett

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us…

— Samuel Beckett

Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

— Samuel Beckett

“ESTRAGON: Do you think God sees me? VLADIMIR: You must close your eyes. Estragon closes his eyes, staggers worse. ESTRAGON: (stopping, brandishing his fists,…

— Samuel Beckett

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

— Samuel Beckett