I found quantities of phrases like qui melius scit pati, majorem tenebit pacem [he who knows how to suffer well shall find the most peace], or Nolle consolari ab aliqua creatura magnae puritatis signum est [to refuse comfort from any creature is a sign of great faith], or the lovely per viam pacis, ad patriam perpetuae claritatis [by the way of peace to the country of everlasting clearness] that seemed to be made for me and which I have never forgotten.
Samuel Beckett / Courtesy Aeon
“Anger led me sometimes to slight excesses of language.”
~ Samuel Beckett
“You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.”
~ Samuel Beckett
” … that’s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.”
~ Samuel Beckett
“My mistakes are my life.”
~ Samuel Beckett
“In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.”
~ Samuel Beckett