Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.

Birth was the death of him.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

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

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Habit is a great deadener.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Make sense who may. I switch off.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Words are all we have.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Vladimir: That passed the time.Estragon: It would have passed in any case.Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

The major sin is the sin of being born.