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Famous Thomas Bernhard Quotes

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”

Thomas Bernhard book Correction

Source: Correction

“Very often we write down a sentencethen anotherwhat we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”

Thomas Bernhard book Concrete

Source: Concrete

“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”

Thomas Bernhard book Gargoyles

Source: Gargoyles

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

Thomas Bernhard

The Loser

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”

Thomas Bernhard

“Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.”

Thomas Bernhard book Correction

Source: Correction

Thomas Bernhard Quotes

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

Thomas Bernhard book Gargoyles

Source: Gargoyles

“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 to be myself.”

Thomas Bernhard

Source: Gathering Evidence

“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 been pretense, never genuine, never real.”

Thomas Bernhard book Woodcutters

Source: Woodcutters

“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 one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.”

Thomas Bernhard book Gargoyles

Source: Gargoyles

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

Thomas Bernhard book Extinction

Source: Extinction

“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.”

Thomas Bernhard book Concrete

Source: Concrete

“You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.”

Thomas Bernhard book Gargoyles

Source: Gargoyles

“I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself…”

Thomas Bernhard book Wittgenstein's Nephew

Source: Wittgenstein's Nephew

“After all, there is nothing but failure.”

Thomas Bernhard

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