Bertolt Brecht Quotes


All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett Failure 200
We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett Insanity 132
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett Business 120
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett Uncategorized 100
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett Chaos 96
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. Samuel Beckett Longing 94
Nothing happens. Nobody comes nobody goes. Its awful. Samuel Beckett Boredom 93
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 dogs moments. Samuel Beckett Play 92
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet. Samuel Beckett Diets 92
The sun shone having no alternative on the nothing new. Samuel Beckett Opening lines 88
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Samuel Beckett Intelligence 87
There is no use indicting words they are no shoddier than what they peddle. Samuel Beckett Language 85
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. Samuel Beckett Matters 83
Birth was the death of him. Samuel Beckett Death 79
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett Crying 79
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. Samuel Beckett Silence 78
Words are all we have. Samuel Beckett Words 76
Be again be again. Pause. All that old misery. Pause. Once wasnt enough for you. Samuel Beckett Misery 73
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. Samuel Beckett Fool 69
A cheval sur une tombe et une naissance difficile. Du fond du trou rveusement le fossoyeur applique ses fers. On a le temps de vieillir. Lair est plein de nos cris. Samuel Beckett French 68
Ada And why life Pause. Why life Henry Pause. Is there anyone about Henry Not a living soul. Ada I thought as much. Pause. When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted. Samuel Beckett Soul 66
Habit is a great deadener. Samuel Beckett Habits 66
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett Again 65
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something. Samuel Beckett Age 65
Dying for dark the darker the worse. Strange. Samuel Beckett Dark 64
The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off she said. Samuel Beckett Writer 62
Make sense who may. I switch off. Samuel Beckett Despair 60
The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. Pause. In a way. Pause. I love to get up and move about in it then back here to... hesitates ...me. Pause. Samuel Beckett Play 60
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 Able 57
Birth was the death of him. Samuel Beckett death 55
I cant go on Ill go on. Samuel Beckett Existentialism 55
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps. Samuel Beckett Delirium 54
Je suis comme a. Ou joublie tout de suite ou je noublie jamais. Samuel BECKETT En attendant Godot Im like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. Samuel Beckett French 54
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must. Samuel Beckett Death 53
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett Love 51
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. Samuel Beckett Contains 51
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things of those that are dear to you or rather you must think of them for if you dont there is the danger of finding them in your mind little by little. Samuel Beckett Memories 51
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. Samuel Beckett Uncategorized 50
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. Samuel Beckett Time 47
But he had turned little by little a disturbance into words he had made a pillow of old words for his head. Samuel Beckett Words 46
Vladimir be reasonable you havent yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. Samuel Beckett Motivation 46
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home ... what it is to be at home A lingering dissolution. Samuel Beckett Drama 45
Was I asleep Had I slept Samuel Beckett Reality 45
Henry I usent 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 Self 44
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 Another 43
CLOV Do you believe in the life to come HAMM Mine was always that. Samuel Beckett Existentialism 43
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments pause after a few moments she did but the eyes just slits because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. Pause. Low Let me in. Samuel Beckett Play 42
They give birth astride of a grave the light gleams an instant then its night once more. Samuel Beckett Existentialism 39
How do you manage it she said at your age I told her Id been saving up for her all my life. Samuel Beckett Play 37
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time but takes place every day. Samuel Beckett Creation 37

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