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> [... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/whatever-condition-we-are-in-we-must-always-do-what-we-want-to-do-and/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

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## More by Thomas Bernhard

> [“He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/he-was-the-only-world-famous-piano-virtuoso-who-abhorred-his-public/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/a-body-needs-at-least-three-points-of-support-not-in-a-straight-line/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/the-essential-elements-of-a-person-come-to-light-only-when-we-must/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/lawyers-make-nothing-but-confusion-a-lawyer-is-an-instrument-of-the/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/i-know-nothing-about-nature-i-hate-nature-because-it-is-killing-me/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/the-empty-rooms-always-had-a-terribly-depressing-effect-upon-my/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/time-destroys-everything-we-do-whatever-it-is/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/to-wake-up-one-day-and-be-steinway-and-glen-in-one-glen-steinway/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“It had always been impossible for me to write to him. Each time I would immediately become aware of the awkwardness of suddenly expressing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/it-had-always-been-impossible-for-me-to-write-to-him-each-time-i/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/all-my-life-i-have-had-the-utmost-admiration-for-suicides-i-have/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“I barricaded myself and stared out the window, without seeing anything but my own unhappiness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/i-barricaded-myself-and-stared-out-the-window-without-seeing-anything/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/whatever-condition-we-are-in-we-must-always-do-what-we-want-to-do-and/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/those-are-terrible-people-who-don-t-like-glenn-gould-i-will-have/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/it-would-be-wrong-to-refuse-to-face-the-fact-that-everything-is/)

[Thomas Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bernhard/)

> [“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bernhard/we-publish-only-to-satisfy-out-craving-for-fame-there-s-no-other/)

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