"It would be wrong to refuse to face……" — Thomas Bernhard

"It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad."

— Thomas Bernhard

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35 Quotes by Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for…
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original…
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I…
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write…
Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others.…
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on…

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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's… — Neil Armstrong
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,… — Arthur Ashe
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I… — Jensen Ackles
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and… — Red Adair

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