Samuel Beckett

"Failure is the only success."

"I can't go on, I'll go on."

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one that dries, another falls."

"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."

"All that falls out of the window into the street imparts an idea of absurdity to the observer."

"We are waiting for Godot. That's all."

"Nothing to be done."

"The key word in my plays is 'perhaps'."

"I use the word hunger in its broadest sense—hunger for experience, for knowledge, for art."

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

"Habit is a great deadener."

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

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"I have never understood the modern sense of humour."

"To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail."

"I don't know why I tell you all this. I suppose that's why."

"Consciousness is a kind of shambles."

"The world is a hell and men are devils."

"I am what I am, and that's not much, but it's all I have."

"One of my eyes is a big one, and sees infinity, the other is small and sees only the present moment."

"There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle."

"God and all the angels testiculate backwards."

"I have had an experience... I shall never know what it was."

"The man who can't laugh is the man who can't change."

"I know of no image more poignant than that of the solitary human consciousness."

"The subject has always been alien to me."

"I write about myself since I am the subject I know best."

"Suicide is a kind of admission. It is confession."

"I have little to say, I have said it, and I am saying it still."

"Beckett! How are you doing? Be quick about it, we're waiting."