Samuel Beckett Quotes

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Death is a very important part of life.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.

I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after life in my head, whether that's right or wrong.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.