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Life Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
- I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose…
- I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
- Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.
- The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the…
- Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep…
- All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
- That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
- And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,…
- We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench
- My mistakes are my life.
- Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
- My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
- I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do…
- How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
- For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining…
- Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
- Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude,…
- It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want,…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle