--- title: "17 Ends Quotes By Samuel Beckett" description: "17 Ends quotes by Samuel Beckett. Plus more from Samuel Beckett and more Ends sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f39/samuel-beckett-365_beginning_the-end-is-in-the-beginning-and-yet-you_1674596.png" --- > [The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-end-is-in-the-beginning-and-yet-you-go-on/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f39/samuel-beckett-365_beginning_the-end-is-in-the-beginning-and-yet-you_1674596.png) > [The end of a life is always vivifying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-end-of-a-life-is-always-vivifying/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/samuel-beckett-365_birth_the-end-of-a-life-is-always-vivifying-36_365655.png) > [Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/imagination-at-wit-s-end-spreads-its-sad-wings/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/samuel-beckett-365_ends_imagination-at-wit-s-end-spreads-its-sad_2806300.png) > [There's never an end for the sea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/there-s-never-an-end-for-the-sea/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/756/samuel-beckett-365_ends_there-s-never-an-end-for-the-sea-1427843_1427843.png) > [The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-search-for-the-means-to-put-an-end-to-things-an-end-to-speech-is/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/samuel-beckett-365_communication_the-search-for-the-means-to-put-an-end-t_2308653.png) > [I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-knew-it-would-soon-be-the-end-so-i-played-the-part-you-know-the/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/samuel-beckett-365_ends_i-knew-it-would-soon-be-the-end-so-i-pla_1673069.png) > [Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/dear-incomprehension-it-s-thanks-to-you-i-ll-be-myself-in-the-end/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c37/samuel-beckett-365_dear_dear-incomprehension-it-s-thanks-to-you_1548084.png) > [I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-did-not-want-to-write-but-i-had-to-resign-myself-to-it-in-the-end/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/samuel-beckett-365_ends_i-did-not-want-to-write-but-i-had-to-res_73435.png) > [The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-essential-is-to-go-on-squirming-forever-at-the-end-of-the-line-as/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30e/samuel-beckett-365_chosen_the-essential-is-to-go-on-squirming-fore_2147393.png) > [The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-memory-came-faint-and-cold-of-the-story-i-might-have-told-a-story/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac0/samuel-beckett-365_cold_the-memory-came-faint-and-cold-of-the-st_2796186.png) > [The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-fact-is-it-seems-that-the-most-you-can-hope-is-to-be-a-little/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/samuel-beckett-365_beginning_the-fact-is-it-seems-that-the-most-you-c_2836982.png) > [Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/enough-of-acting-the-infant-who-has-been-told-so-often-how-he-was/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/samuel-beckett-365_acting_enough-of-acting-the-infant-who-has-been_1848370.png) > [But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/but-i-was-not-made-for-the-great-light-that-devours-a-dim-lamp-was/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/samuel-beckett-365_empty_but-i-was-not-made-for-the-great-light-t_1862798.png) > [All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/all-this-business-of-a-labour-to-accomplish-before-i-can-end-of-words/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/419/samuel-beckett-365_accomplish_all-this-business-of-a-labour-to-accompl_497051.jpg) > [Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/personally-of-course-i-regret-everything-not-a-word-not-a-deed-not-a/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/785/samuel-beckett-365_boys_personally-of-course-i-regret-everything_2911356.png) > [...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/and-a-dream-away-in-space-with-neither-her-nor-there-where-all-the/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/samuel-beckett-365_ashes_and-a-dream-away-in-space-with-neither-h_2159628.png) > [She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/she-felt-as-she-felt-so-often-with-murphy-spattered-with-words-that/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cd/samuel-beckett-365_difficult_she-felt-as-she-felt-so-often-with-murph_3214907.jpg) ## Other authors on Ends ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-was-december-i-had-never-felt-so-cold-the-eel-soup-lay-heavy-on-my/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/to-be-always-what-i-am-and-so-changed-from-what-i-was/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [To what will love not stoop!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/to-what-will-love-not-stoop/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/with-all-this-darkness-round-me-i-feel-less-alone/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/you-may-say-it-is-all-in-my-head-and-indeed-sometimes-it-seems-to-me/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/here-he-stood-here-he-sat-here-he-knelt-here-he-lay-here-he-moved-to/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/what-are-we-doing-here-that-is-the-question-and-we-are-blessed-in/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-shall-state-silences-more-competently-than-ever-a-better-man/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/it-is-useless-not-to-seek-not-to-want-for-when-you-cease-to-seek-you/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/we-are-not-saints-but-we-have-kept-our-appointment-how-many-people/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-new-light-above-my-table-is-a-great-improvement-with-all-this/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/i-lay-down-across-her-with-my-face-in-her-breasts-and-my-hand-on-her/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/women-are-all-the-bloody-sameyou-can-t-love-for-five-minutes-without/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/estragon-do-you-think-god-sees-me-vladimir-you-must-close-your-eyes/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) > [Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/deplorable-mania-when-something-happens-to-inquire-what/) [Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ends/samuel-beckett/#itemlist", "name": "17 Ends Quotes By Samuel Beckett", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Beckett" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/the-end-is-in-the-beginning-and-yet-you-go-on/", 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