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
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.
inspirational suicide people
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
country thinking people
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 wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.
men thinking people
The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.
people terrible dangerous
Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.
views practice people
In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.
depressing dog people
People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.
character people boring
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.
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.
ideas als cabo
Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.
mind facts
We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
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.