"The fact would seem to be, if in……" — Samuel Beckett
"The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never."
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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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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
— Jane Austen
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
— Euripides
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To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on…
— Jackie Huggins
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Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their…
— Unknown Author
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the…
— Werner Heisenberg
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We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The…
— Wangari Maathai
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
— Archibald MacLeish
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True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing…
— Desmond Tutu
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You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot…
— Jim Rohn
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