Samuel Beckett Quotes

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

You'll understand when I'm dead.

Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

What can't be helped must be endured.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.