Samuel Beckett: ten best quotes Irish playwright Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 and died in 1989. He is best known for his plays, but he also wrote novels and for radio and television. Probably the most famous is Waiting for Godot, a play where two tramps wait for someone called Godot, who never appears. His other plays include Not I, Krapp's Last Tape, and Happy Days. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Here are ten of his best quotes. Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. We are all born mad. Some remain so. Words are all we have. Birth was the death of him. What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. You're on Earth. There's no cure for that. Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.