Samuel Beckett

"I was born like this, and I'll die like this."

"Every creation requires a destruction of the past."

"We are born into a prison we don't remember entering."

"The human race is a failed experiment."

"Music is a kind of thinking by another name."

"I find living insufferable, yet I persist."

"There is no exit because there is no entrance."

"We mistake our memories for our lives."

"Loneliness is the only truth."

"I could never love anyone who believed in me."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being."

"We live not by days but by disappointments."

"I don't think I can go on much longer."

"But I must go on, so I will."

"All art is failure, the beauty lies in the struggle."

"We are all born to be unhappy."

"I have committed every sin except suicide."

"The world is full of suffering and that's the only relief."

"I am a stranger to myself, as I am to others."

"Hope is the cruelest emotion of all."

"We are all children wandering lost in the dark."

"Nothing happens twice, yet everything repeats."

"I contain multitudes that contradict each other."

"The past is our only country."

"We are too fond of our own creations."

"I am not well, in fact I've never been well."

"Words betray us before we even speak them."

"There is no meaning, except what we desperately invent."

"I would prefer not to."

"We keep waiting because the alternative is action."