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
thinking breathe ability
Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
thinking ridiculous critical-thinking
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death
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.
writing thinking order
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 the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.
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.
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
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.
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.