You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

Samuel Beckett

More information about this quote

Topic

The human condition

Speaker

Hamm

Author

Samuel Beckett

Source

Endgame

Medium

Play

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Beckett, Samuel. Fin de partie. 1957.

Current Citation

Beckett, Samuel. "Endgame." Endgame and Act Without Words I. Translated by Samuel Beckett. Grove P, 2009.

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1950s

God has pity on kindergarten children.
He has less pity on school children.
And on grownups he has no pity at all,
he leaves them alone,
and sometimes they must crawl on all fours
in the burning sand
to reach the first-aid station
covered with blood.

Yehuda Amichai

God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children

More information about this quote
Topic
War

Author

Yehuda Amichai
Source
God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children
Medium
Poem
Language
Hebrew
Time
1955 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Amichai, Yehuda. "God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children." Now and in Other Days. 1955.

Current Citation

Amichai, Yehuda. "God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children." The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. U of California P, 2013.

Another quote about The human condition

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies

Buy All's Well that Ends Well at Amazon Buy All's Well that Ends Well at Amazon
Read All's Well that Ends Well at The Folger Shakespeare Library
More information about this quote
Topic
The human condition Yin and yang
Speaker
First Lord

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
All’s Well that Ends Well Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedy (play)
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1623 1620s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

Another quote originally in French

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

More information about this quote
Topic
Limits of language

Author

Victor Hugo
Source
William Shakespeare
Language
French
Time
1864 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hugo, Victor. William Shakespeare. 1864.