Samuel Beckett

Ireland
13 Apr 1906 // 22 Dec 1989
Writer

Quotes



As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays