Samuel Beckett Quotes

Opportunity is the great bawd.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.