QuotesBy.net


Home › Authors › S › Samuel Beckett

Quote #89

The only sin is the sin of being born.

— Samuel Beckett

More from Samuel Beckett

  1. Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At boun…
  2. If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
  3. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
  4. It means what it says.
  5. Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door th…
  6. Nothing happens, twice.
  7. This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there's no end to me, I don't know what it is, it isn't flesh, it doesn't e…
  8. Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that'…

All Samuel Beckett quotes

← Samuel Adams All S authors Samuel Butler →

Related quotes

  • We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because w… Franz Kafka
  • Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I … Yukio Mishima
  • It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exi… H. P. Lovecraft
  • What crime have we commited in order to be born? Alphonse de Lamartine
  • How tell what remains ? But it's the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming ? No no,… Samuel Beckett
  • I think, ofttimes, that lives of men may be Likened to wandering winds that come and go N… Paul Hamilton Hayne

Topics in this quote

  • life
  • existentialism
  • guilt
  • nihilism
  • sin

Related authors

  • Orson Scott Card
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Albert Camus
  • Phil Hendrie
  • Kate Bush
  • Ashleigh Brilliant

Browse

  • Authors starting with S
  • All authors A–Z

QuotesBy.net