“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.”Thomas Bernhard book GargoylesSource: Gargoyles
“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 WoodcuttersSource: Woodcutters
“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 CorrectionSource: Correction