Admiration Quote by Thomas Bernhard

“He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Thomas Bernhard

“I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.”

— 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…

— Thomas Bernhard

“Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”

— 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…

— Thomas Bernhard

“I barricaded myself and stared out the window, without seeing anything but my own unhappiness.”

— 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,…

— 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.

— Thomas Bernhard