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Time Quotes by Samuel Beckett

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A blind person without a notion of time feels the world hidden, yet hears inner cries that echo in the mind. He describes standing through pain, finding that enough is enough, and that speaking of nothing still gives it shape. He also notes the strange mix of missing someone while feeling happy at the same time.

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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

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“Then a moment passed and all was changed.”

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

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That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

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How time flies when one has fun!

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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

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“What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I'm not sure of it.”

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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

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“Misfortunes, blessings, I have no time to pick my words, I am in a hurry to be done. And yet no, I…

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I missed you...and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a queer thing?

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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all…

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That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

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“there is [...] a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be loved…

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Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at…

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Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy…

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All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,…

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“What am I doing now, I’m trying to see where I am, so as to be able to go elsewhere, should occasion…

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And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet…

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“A little darkness, in itself, at the time, is nothing. You think no more about it and you go on. But I…

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What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past.…

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“He speaks of himself as of another. Himself he devises too for company. Leave it at that. Confusion too is company up…

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“But man is still today, at the age of twenty-five, at the mercy of an erection, physically too, from time to time,…

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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the…

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“No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No…

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She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word…

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I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the…

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“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have…

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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not…

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“Yes, I feel the moment has come for me to look back, if I can, and take my bearings, if I am…

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“VLADIMIR: ( after a moment of bewilderment ). We'll see when the time comes. ( Pause. ) I was saying that things…

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“From time to time. You do not count your steps any more. For the simple reason they number each day the same.…

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“Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we…

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“I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence, and never sleep…

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“Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we…

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“...and I'll be able to go on, no, I'll be able to stop, or start, another guzzle of lies but piping hot,…

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“Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.”

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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

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“From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it.”

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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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

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

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

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

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