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
ideas als cabo
Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.
doctors ridiculous said
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous
want turns profession
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.
mind facts
We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
stupid people confusion
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.
opposites next brutality
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
thinking breathe ability
Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
punishment errors would-be
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.
phrases scrap
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
errors childhood inmates
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.
suicide details causes
...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.
soul poverty criminals
A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.
book writing dark
I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.
thinking ridiculous critical-thinking
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death