Samuel Beckett Quotes

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

It's never easy to watch. It's never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.