"They give birth astride of a grave, the……" — Samuel Beckett
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
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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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She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted…
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You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't…
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You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed,…
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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist…
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world.…
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You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion,…
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All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we…
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Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough…
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Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you…
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