Samuel Beckett Quotes

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Spend the years of learning squandering From the loutishness of learning.

The only sin is the sin of being born.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

It means what it says.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.