Samuel Beckett Quotes

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

You control your own wins and losses.

The world is independent of my will.

I am the very slave of circumstance

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

They don't want you to win.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.