Samuel Beckett Quotes

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”

“I can't go on. I'll go on.”

“You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.”

“To go somewhere, start going.”

“It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone”

“If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!”

“Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol.""No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----""After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol.”

“Do you what you fear to do.Go where you fear to go.”

“We may not know where we are or where we are going, but we have to go.”

“Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My body's a beast. A beast that's been held back too long.”