“ The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. Thomas Bernhard
“ We have relinquished and abandoned and left behind and forgotten what we believed we had to relinquish, abandon and leave behind and ultimately forget; we have let ourselves go and we have gone away a… Thomas Bernhard
“ She had been unable to stand the people at the inn. The company had disgusted her. For an instant, but that instant was now long gone, she had thought of returning to her home, to Persia. Or to Greece… Thomas Bernhard
“ All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. Thomas Bernhard
“ 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
“ On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years… Thomas Bernhard
“ We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because t… Thomas Bernhard
“ Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with. Thomas Bernhard
“ After my parents were dead, I found in a box and in two chests of drawers nothing but hundreds of bright red Alpine caps, I said, nothing but bright red Alpine stockings. Every one of them knitted by… Thomas Bernhard
“ Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who w… Thomas Bernhard
“ Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition,… Thomas Bernhard
“ The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the w… Thomas Bernhard
“ I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs. Thomas Bernhard
“ He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it. Thomas Bernhard
“ When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything. Thomas Bernhard
“ The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse. Thomas Bernhard
