"To him who has nothing it is forbidden…" — Samuel Beckett
"To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth."
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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 Filth Quotes
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one of 112 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
— Tony Abbott
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There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
— Winston Churchill
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power…
— Thomas Brooks
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Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is…
— George Carlin
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Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In…
— Origen
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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
— Mao Zedong
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick;…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died…
— Anna Sewell
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Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
— John of Salisbury
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