Samuel Beckett Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I can't go on, I'll go on. I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

2. I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought. Malone Dies

3. If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

4. The more people I meet the happier I become. Waiting for Godot

5. You can't have everything, I've often noticed it. Molloy

6. Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

7. I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

8. If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

9. In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? Collected Poems in English and French

10. It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen

11. It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

12. One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

13. They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Waiting for Godot

14. Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.

15. Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

16. Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable