Samuel Beckett Quotes

I must endure & endure & still endure.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.

The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

As long as one suffers one lives.

No Victory Without Suffering

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.