Quotes from Thomas Bernhard

But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer

When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought.

That he was actually born into a giant fortune, all his life hadn't had any use for this giant fortune, had always been unhappy with this giant fortune, I thought. That his parents had been unable, as they say, to open his eyes, that they were the ones who depressed the child, I thought.

When we meet the very best, we have to give up.

Ciascuno di noi è completamente isolato in se stesso, anche se tra noi il legame è strettissimo. La vita intera non è altro che un tentativo ininterrotto di ritrovarci.

Bir insana, hiç kimseyle olmad???m?z gibi baÄŸl? olmak için, yan yana olmam?z gerekmez.

Bir insana ne kadar uzunca bir süre bakarsak o kadar sakatlanm?? olduÄŸunu kavrayamayaca??m?z kadar sakatlanm??t?r, iÅŸin asl? budur. Dünya sakatlarla doludur. SokaÄŸa ç?kar?z ve yaln?z sakatlar? görürüz.

Ana baba, bizzat kendileri olan felaketi çocuklar?nda sürdürdüklerini çok iyi bilirler çocuk yapmay? ve onlar? yaÅŸam makinesinin içine atmay? haince sürdürürler.

The end is no process

I always make the mistake of not asking the hosts who else is being invited, I thought.

We had taken him for a Norwegian ship's captain and had come to his table to hear some more about seafaring, not about philosophy, from which, indeed, we had fled north from Central Europe.

I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought.

Bosque, monte alto, tala.

Wertheimer was afraid of losing his unhappiness and killed himself for this and no other reason, I thought, with

All our lives we run away from amateurishness and it always catches up with us, I thought, we want nothing with greater passion than to escape our lifelong amateurishness and it always catches up with us.

Unsere Bibliotheken sind sozusagen Strafanstalten, in welche wir unsere Geistesgrößen eingesperrt haben, Kant naturgemäß in eine Einzelzelle wie Nietzsche, wie Schopenhauer, wie Pascal, wie Voltaire, wie Montaigne, alle ganz großen in Einzelzellen, alle andern in Massenzellen, aber alle für immer und ewig, mein Lieber, für alle Zeit und in die Unendlichkeit hinein, das ist die Wahrheit.

Weng lies in a hollow, buried among blocks of ice for millions of years. The roadsides favor promiscuity.

When we think, we know nothing, everything is open, nothing, so Roithamer.

To get ourselves out of a tight spot, it seems to me, we are ourselves just as mendacious as those we are always accusing of mendacity, those whom we despise and drag in the dirt for their mendacity;

Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard

To exist means nothing other than we despair . . .

Mais, lui, ne voulant pas renier son caractère, avait, avant de se suicider, brûlé l'œuvre de sa vie, la rendant au néant en quelques instants, après avoir consacré des dizaines d'années à la mener à bien, et il n'avait pas voulu la laisser à une postérité qui ne la méritait en aucun cas (Génie).

The feminine is treacherous by its very nature. It undermines and hollows out. It's poison for the masculine brain, for the brain as a whole, for the masculine.

I could hear her voice and take delight in the things she used to say, in her laugh, in her responsiveness to everything beautiful. For Joana had the gift of always seeing the beauty which exists beside the terrible, unending ugliness that destroys and annihilates—a gift which very few possess, but which she possessed to a higher degree than anyone I have known in my whole life.