Short Quotes - Author Samuel Beckett Showing 1 - 35 of 35 Add Quote Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett Upvote0 If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window. Samuel Beckett Body Upvote0 There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. Samuel Beckett Fault Upvote0 I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. Samuel Beckett Butterflies Upvote0 Habit is a great deadener. Samuel Beckett Habit Upvote0 I can't go on. I'll go on. Samuel Beckett Upvote0 If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett Love Upvote0 Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett Nothingness Upvote0 Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. Samuel Beckett University Upvote0 I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. Samuel Beckett Life Upvote0 Do we mean love, when we say love? Samuel Beckett Love Upvote0 Birth was the death of him. Samuel Beckett Death Upvote0 All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. Samuel Beckett Beginning Upvote0 Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. Samuel Beckett Time Upvote0 That's how it is on this bitch of an earth. Samuel Beckett Earth Upvote0 I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. Samuel Beckett Faults Upvote0 In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. Samuel Beckett Upvote0 The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett Quality Upvote0 Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. Samuel Beckett Upvote0 Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Samuel Beckett Intelligence Upvote0 Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. Samuel Beckett Nothing Upvote0 Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. Samuel Beckett Hell Upvote0 No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett Business Upvote0 James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. Samuel Beckett Trying Upvote0 Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. Samuel Beckett Nothing Upvote0 It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. Samuel Beckett Day Upvote0 Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett Upvote0 We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett Upvote0 They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Samuel Beckett Grave Upvote0 What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. Samuel Beckett Destiny Upvote0 We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Samuel Beckett People Upvote0 Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett Silence Upvote0 Words are all we have. Samuel Beckett Words Upvote0 You're on earth. There's no cure for that. Samuel Beckett Cure Upvote0 To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett Artist Upvote0