Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. -- Samuel Beckett | |
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one day like any other day, only shorter. -- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies" | |
Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever. -- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame" | |
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Beckett | |
We are all born mad. Some remain so. -- Samuel Beckett | |
The major sin is the sin of being born. -- Samuel Beckett |