Samuel Beckett

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

"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."

"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."

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."

"The only sin is the sin of being born"

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."

"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."