3 Samuel Beckett Quotes on Aging

Samuel Beckett quotes on aging

6. Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

8. We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.

47. The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.