Samuel Beckett Quotes

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

I'm able to do nothing.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

"Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?" The Imass shrugged before replying. "I think of futility, Adjunct." "Do all Imass think about futility?" "No. Few think at all." "Why is that?" The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. "Because, Adjunct, it is futile."

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

Our string has run out. There is nothing more we can do.