We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
“A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
“The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
“The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
“It had always been impossible for me to write to him. Each time I would immediately become aware of the awkwardness of suddenly expressing… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
“I barricaded myself and stared out the window, without seeing anything but my own unhappiness.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey,… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money…” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share
