Samuel Beckett Quotes

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

Life and hope must cease together.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

There's no saving me.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

The coming of ultimate failure we saw clearly enough, but the future beyond was a blank. The subject was naturally not a pleasant one, and by common consent it was always avoided in conversation, until at last we learned to avoid it in thought as well. We waited gloomily for the end, but did not care particularly to speculate upon the question when and how the end was to come.

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.