Samuel Beckett Quotes

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

Didn’t understand love? Was she crazy? If she only knew what I’d sacrificed for Dimitri, what I’d done to be where I was now . . . all for love. She was the one who couldn’t understand. Love wasn’t a fling in a back room at a party. It was something you lived and died for.

... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

This thing we call love has always been tricky, and as beautiful as it can be, we can potentially lose ourselves in it.

What you feel about a film is what you feel when you're in love with a woman. You fight for her love and it's always a struggle... there are misunderstandings and you're always trying to prove that there's more to you.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

Extravagant love is never wasted.

Love... love... love, never counting the cost.