All Thomas Bernhard Quotes
- The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable. Art
- In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and… All
- Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health,… Absurd
- I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying… Amateurishness
- Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper… Down
- Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. Add
- We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist Exist
- Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think. Ability
- The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. Anger
- Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial. Al
- Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit… Doe
- 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 much… Always Right
- I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was… All
- What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous Beings
- ...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated… All
- Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. Committing
- You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has… Always Lived
- ... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then… Anyway Whether
- It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. Face
- People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his… Any
- After all, there is nothing but failure. All
- The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences. Inspirational
- ...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases. Dislocated
- Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. Banks
- We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always… Admire