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

— Samuel Beckett · Life quote

Writer · 1906 – 1989

Irish playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot; Nobel Prize in Literature 1969.

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

My life between 22 yards for 24 years; it is hard to believe that that wonderful journey has come to an end.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Burn on, sweetly, sweetly, O my little lamp.