Samuel Beckett Quotes

In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

We live in all we seek.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.