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Endgame

Samuel Beckett

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”

“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.”

“Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth, there's no cure for that!”

“HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!”

“I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”

“God damn you to hell, Sir, no, it's indecent, there are limits! In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. Yes Sir, no less Sir, the WORLD! And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!' 'But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look at the world and look at my TROUSERS!”

“All life long, the same questions, the same answers.”

“Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.”

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