"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on……" — Samuel Beckett
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
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220 Quotes by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett has 220 quotes on this site.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not…
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always…
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to…
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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Every word written is a victory against death.
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
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Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
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Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our…
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for…
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A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she…
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you…
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Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
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