Samuel Beckett

"Time is a killer."

"Death is the only thing we're guaranteed."

"Art is not about making things beautiful, it's about making things true."

"We are born astride the grave."

"The real disaster is the absence of disaster."

"I'm in the land of the blind and I'm half-blind too."

"The tears of the world are an illusion."

"One must go on living as if one were alive."

"What are the words he used? He said nothing."

"The most beautiful thing is to be left alone."

"Imagination is the work of a dissatisfied mind."

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

"The good of the bad outweighs the bad of the good."

"I quote myself too often but you see it is so difficult to quote anyone else."

"The air is full of our cries."

"Nothing in the world makes people so irritable as not being bored."

"Better to lose everything than to gain it."

"We are waiting still."

"There is more enterprise in walking naked."

"I don't love humanity but I love humans."

"The only sin is to bore yourself."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"All the worlds are mine and I begrudge no one his."

"I am waiting for the day when boredom will kill me."

"The end is in the beginning, and yet we always miss it."

"Everything is fine, nothing matters."

"We are dying of boredom like dogs in a trap."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves."

"I would like to believe in something permanent, but change is all I know."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward we are strong."