Quotes from Thomas Bernhard

We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference

One actually finds most people uninteresting, I thought, all the time—almost all the people we meet are uninteresting, having nothing to offer us but their collective mediocrity and their collective imbecility, with which they bore us on every occasion, and so naturally we have no time for them.

We may know for decades that someone close to us is a ridiculous person, but it's only after a lapse of decades that we suddenly see it.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them. VOLTAIRE

Hayat tasavvurunun yüce sanat? gibi yaÅŸaman?n ve var olman?n daha yüce sanat?n?n da alaya al?nd???, kabare gibi bir dünyada ya??yoruz biz. Felsefe kabare gibi. Din kabare gibi. SavaÅŸ, devasa bir ceset y???n?, sayg?deÄŸer beyefendi, bütünüyle yalan bir k?ta, bugün tüm bunlar ÅŸaka.

One misunderstanding casts us into the world of misunderstanding, which we must put up with as a world composed solely of misunderstandings and which we depart from with a single great misunderstanding, for death is the greatest misunderstanding of all.

Nature, not yet polluted by human beings, hence his early rising.

Oni idu tako daleko i vjeruju da ?ovjek nastaje tek onda kad primi svedodžbu ili stekne titulu, prije toga uop?e nije ?ovjek.

Anyone can bear a catastrophe, once it has occurred, by at least seeming to avoid it through keeping busy, no matter which work routine he forces himself into.

Und ich denke heute, die Menschen, die in unserem Leben wirklich etwas bedeutet haben, können wir an den Fingern einer Hand abzählen und sehr oft sträubt sich sogar diese eine Hand gegen die Perversität, in welcher wir glauben, eine ganze Hand zum Abzählen dieser Menschen heranziehen zu müssen, wo wir doch, wenn wir ehrlich sind, wahrscheinlich ohne einen einzigen Finger auskommen.

Correction of the correction of the correction of the correction.

Istinski i u stvarnosti na svijetu još samo postoje glumci koji se igraju rada, nema radnika. Sve se glumi, ništa se više zbiljski ne ?ini.

We don't have to be ashamed, but we are nothing, and we earn nothing but chaos.

Wehe, Sie lesen eindringlicher, Sie ruinieren sich alles, was Sie lesen. Es ist ganz gleich, was Sie lesen, es wird am Ende lächerlich und ist am Ende nichts wert. Hüten Sie sich vor dem Eindringen in Kunstwerke, sagte er, Sie verderben sich alles und jedes, selbst das Geliebteste.

M? gândesc cu pl?cere la autodistrugere ÅŸi autodesfiinÅ£are.N-am altceva de f?cut toat? viaÅ£a.Iar dac? nu m? înÅŸel,chiar îmi reuÅŸesc autodistrugerea ÅŸi autodesfiinÅ£area.De când m? scol dimineaÅ£a,primul meu gând este s? acÅ£ionez decis la distrugerea ÅŸi desfiinÅ£area mea.

I'm waiting for the end now, you know! Just as you're waiting for your end. Just as everyone's waiting for their end. Only they don't realize they're waiting and waiting for what I've always been waiting for, namely the end!

Glenn had the good fortune of collapsing at his Steinway in the middle of the Goldberg Variations. [Wertheimer] claimed he'd been trying to collapse for years, without success.

To our horror, the very neighbor whom we had for decades thought of as the best natured and hardest working and, we always thought, the most contented of all our neighbors has turned out to be a murderer.

But I've always been a genius of secrecy, I thought, quite unlike Wertheimer who basically couldn't keep anything a secret, had to talk about everything, had to get everything out in the open as long as he lived. But naturally unlike most others we were lucky not to have to earn a cent because we had enough from the very beginning. Whereas

We have always preferred to be operated on by the assistants of famous surgeons who are also always famous medical professors, and not by those surgeons and professors themselves.

En el fondo, el mundo, desde dondequiera que lo miremos, se compone de insoportabilidad. El mundo nos resulta cada vez más insoportable. El que soportemos lo insoportable es la capacidad para el tormento y el dolor, durante toda la vida, de cada uno, hay en ello algunos elementos irónicos, un idiotismo irracional, y todo lo demás es calumnia.

Io non ho mai avuto un padre e non ho mai avuto una madre, ma ho avuto sempre il mio Montaigne.

Dünyaya getirilir, ama yetiÅŸtirilmeyiz. Bizi dünyaya getirenler, yaratt?klar? yeni insan? yok etmek için gereken her türlü beceriksizliÄŸi ve ak?ls?zl??? yapar.

I enter into a book and settle in it, neck and crop, you should realize, in one or two pages of a philosophical essay as if I were entering a landscape, a piece of nature, a state organism, a detail of the earth, if you like, in order to penetrate into it entirely and not just with half my strength or half-heartedly, in order to explore it and then, having explored it with all the thoroughness at my disposal, drawing conclusions as to the whole.