Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhardwas an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 February 1931
CountryAustria
writing
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.
writing too-late lost
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.
journey worry goes-on
... 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, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.
sick faces facts
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.