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#1

“As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.”
― John Swartzwelder

tags: absurd

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#2

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

tags: ash, evidence, inspiration, life, poetry, writing

988 likes

#3

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

678 likes

#4

“first of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: cohen, leonard, poetry

241 likes

#5

“Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free!!”
― Leonard Cohen

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#6

“A sip of wine, a cigarette,
And then it’s time to go.
I tidied up the kitchenette;
I tuned the old banjo.
I’m wanted at the traffic-jam.
They’re saving me a seat.”
― Leonard Cohen

tags: traffic

58 likes

#7

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: life, planets, space-travel

1508 likes

#8

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#9

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy

720 likes

#10

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

577 likes

#11

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
― Samuel Beckett

595 likes

#12

“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!”
― Samuel Beckett

365 likes

#13

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

tags: beckett, endgame, funny, unhappiness-nothing

336 likes

#14

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

396 likes

#15

“Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

296 likes

#16

“Nothing is more real than nothing.”
― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

232 likes

#17

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#18

“Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

174 likes

#19

“It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: change, desire, longing, pain, suffering, time

146 likes

#20

“Vladimir: I don't understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

139 likes

#21

“Estragon: What about hanging ourselves?
Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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#22

“The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

tags: sadness, tears

83 likes

#23

“There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

92 likes

#24

“If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.”
― Samuel Beckett, Happy Days

66 likes

#25

“There's no lack of void.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

98 likes

#26

“I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.”
― Samuel Beckett

51 likes

#27

“The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust”
― Samuel Beckett

59 likes

#28

“It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

tags: beckett, destination, resignation

48 likes

#29

“Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.”
― Samuel Beckett, Proust

tags: habit

47 likes

#30

“[A]ll I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.”
― Samuel Beckett

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