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1. "I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments." ~ Samuel Beckett
2. "There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist." ~ Samuel Beckett
3. "But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head." ~ Samuel Beckett
4. "Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle." ~ Samuel Beckett
5. "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ~ Samuel Beckett
6. "We are all born mad. Some remain so." ~ Samuel Beckett
7. "Words are all we have." ~ Samuel Beckett
8. "I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all." ~ Samuel Beckett
9. "Was I asleep? Had I slept?" ~ Samuel Beckett
10. "She dragged me across the floor, stopping from time to time only to kick me. I didn't know our cows too could be so inhuman." ~ Samuel Beckett
11. "Fail better worse now." ~ Samuel Beckett
12. "Once a certain degree of insight has been reached," said Wylie, "all men talk, when talk they must, the same tripe." ~ Samuel Beckett
13. "Rien à faire." ~ Samuel Beckett
14. "Pozzo: I don't seem to be able...(long hesitation) to depart.Estragon: Such is life." ~ Samuel Beckett
15. "Vladimir:-Cuando uno piensa, oye.Estragon:-Cierto.Vladimir:-Y eso impide reflexionar.Estragon:-Claro.Vladimir:-Impide pensar.Estragon:-De todos modos se piensa.Vladimir:-¡Qué va!, resulta imposible.Estragon:-Eso es, contradigámonos.Vladimir: Imposible.Estragon:-¿Tú crees?Vladimir:-Ya no nos arriesgamos a pensar.Estragon:-Entonces, ¿De qué nos lamentamos?" ~ Samuel Beckett
16. "What a weary way since that first disaster, what nerves torn from the heart of insentience, with the appertaining terror and the cerebellum on fire. It took him a long time to adapt himself to this excoriation." ~ Samuel Beckett
17. "A quem nada tem é proibido não amar a merda." ~ Samuel Beckett
18. "Estragon: Hepimiz deli dogariz. Bazilarimiz öyle kalir." ~ Samuel Beckett
19. "But all this was nothing compared to the face which I regret to say vaguely resembled my own, less the refinement of course, same little abortive moustache, same little ferrety eyes, same paraphimosis of the nose, and a thin red mouth that looked as if it was raw from trying to shit its tongue." ~ Samuel Beckett
20. "Clov: Why this farce, day after day? Hamm: Routine. One never knows. [Pause.] Last night I saw inside my breast. There was a big sore. Clov: Pah! You saw your heart. Hamm: No, it was living. [Pause. Anguished.] Clov! Clov: Yes. Hamm: What's happening? Clov: Something is taking its course. [Pause.] Hamm: Clov! Clov: [impatiently] What is it? Hamm: We're not beginning to ... to ... mean something? Clov: Mean something! You and I, mean something! [Brief laugh.] Ah that's a good one! Hamm: I wonder. [Pause.]" ~ Samuel Beckett
21. "I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them." ~ Samuel Beckett
22. "Balla, maiale!" ~ Samuel Beckett
23. "You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness." ~ Samuel Beckett
24. "There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty." ~ Samuel Beckett
25. "The essential doesn't change." ~ Samuel Beckett
26. "Words are the clothes thoughts wear." ~ Samuel Beckett
27. "The old thing where it always was, back again. As when a man, having found at last what he sought, a woman, for example, or a friend, loses it, or realises what it is. And yet it is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it. The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden. I pass on the tip for what it is worth." ~ Samuel Beckett
28. "Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)" ~ Samuel Beckett
29. "Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful." ~ Samuel Beckett
30. "Quisiera que mi amor muriese...quisiera que mi amor muriesey que lloviera sobre el cementerioy las callejas por las que caminollorando a aquella que creyó que amaba" ~ Samuel Beckett
31. "Nous naissons tous fous. Quelques-uns le demeurent." ~ Samuel Beckett
32. "On a le temps de viellir. L'air est plein de nos cris. Mais l'habitude est une grande sourdine." ~ Samuel Beckett
33. "Misfortunes, blessings, I have no time to pick my words, I am in a hurry to be done. And yet no, I am in no hurry." ~ Samuel Beckett
34. "All is ready. Except me. I am being given, if I may venture the expression, birth to into death, such is my impression. The feet are clear already, of the great cunt of existence. Favourable presentation I trust. My head will be the last to die. Haul in your hands. I can't. The render rent. My story ended I'll be living yet. Promising lag. That is the end of me. I shall say I no more." ~ Samuel Beckett
35. "Dance first, think later." ~ Samuel Beckett
36. "Estragon: What about hanging ourselves?Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection." ~ Samuel Beckett
37. "Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better." ~ Samuel Beckett
38. "There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough." ~ Samuel Beckett
39. "As for my needs, they had dwindled as it were to my dimensions and become, if I may say so, of so exquisite a quality as to exclude all thought of succour." ~ Samuel Beckett
40. "You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these eight, no, six, these six planes that enclose me are of solid bone. But thence to conclude the head is mine, no, never." ~ Samuel Beckett
41. "estragon: we lost our rights?vladimir: we got rid of them." ~ Samuel Beckett
42. "God damn you to hell, Sir, no, it's indecent, there are limits! In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. Yes Sir, no less Sir, the WORLD! And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!''But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look at the world and look at my TROUSERS!" ~ Samuel Beckett
43. "Hell must be like... reminiscing about the good old days when we wished we were dead." ~ Samuel Beckett
44. "WINNIE: Sometimes I am wrong. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.) Sometimes all is over, for the day, all done, all said, all ready for the night, and the day not over, far from over, the night not ready, far, far from ready. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.)" ~ Samuel Beckett
45. "This tired abstract anger; inarticulate passive opposition; always the same thing in dublin" ~ Samuel Beckett
46. "What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I'm not sure of it." ~ Samuel Beckett
47. "I have changed refuge so often, in the course of my rout, that now I can't tell between dens and ruins. But there was never any city but the one. It is true you often move along in a dream, houses and factories darken the air, trams go by and under your feet wet from the grass there are suddenly cobbles. I only know the city of my childhood, I must have seen the other, but unbelieving. All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing." ~ Samuel Beckett
48. "Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you." ~ Samuel Beckett
49. "Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!" ~ Samuel Beckett
50. "I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent." ~ Samuel Beckett
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