Samuel Beckett Quotes

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

I guess good things come to those who wait.

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

I'm not worried. My time will come.

You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.