46 quotes
Irish writer (1906–1989)
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)”
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
on Humor
"In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness."
on Life
"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."
on Writing
"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."
"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
on Perseverance
"Birth was the death of him."
on Death
"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."
on Philosophy
"The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness."
on Creativity
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
"The only sin is the sin of being born"
"There's never an end for the sea."
on Nature
"Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun."
on Communication
"I can't go on. I'll go on."
"Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea."
"It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution."
"You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on."
"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
"Words are all we have."
"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
