“Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time...” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“I barricaded myself and stared out the window, without seeing anything but my own unhappiness.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
... 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 Image
