Samuel Beckett Quotes

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it’s making peace with yourself.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.