"I pause to record that I feel in……" — Samuel Beckett
"I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps."
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Samuel Beckett
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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More Delirium Quotes
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one of 77 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are…
— Italo Svevo
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Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher,…
— Unknown Author
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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell…
— Kim Stanley
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood…
— William Butler Yeats
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Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've…
— Tori Amos
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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of…
— Jean Dubuffet
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A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
— Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
— Henri Michaux
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