Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
Samuel Beckett

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

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Samuel Beckett

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett

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

Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
Samuel Beckett