Thomas Bernhard Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is better to read twelve lines of a book with the utmost intensity and thus to penetrate into them to the full
It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It
Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould ... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.
Because in the end nothing matters all that much, as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same.
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous
We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ...
Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.
But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting my footsteps until I feel about to go mad.
What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth.
He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.
The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.
If that handsome fellow were a cripple he wouldn't repel me, but he isn't a cripple, he is that handsome fellow, so he repels me ...
The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything - and this is the most cruel law - continually gets worse.
Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time ...
Weng lies in a hollow, buried among blocks of ice for millions of years. The roadsides favor promiscuity.
You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.
We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives;
Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.
Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness.
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 time, otherwise it's lost.
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.
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
A body needs at least
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.
He abhorred people who said things that hadn't been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.