Quotes by Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard

…He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

Phrases

Scrap

…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.

Causes

Details

Suicide

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Anime

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it’s only feigned.

Arrogance

Use

World

Everything is what it is, that’s all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Crazy

Goes On

Mystery

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.

Literature

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.

Errors

Punishment

Would Be

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Inspirational

People

Suicide

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.

Confusion

People

Stupid

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

Applause

Disaster

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Adversity

Als

Anime

Applause

Arrogance

Art

Boring

Cabo

Causes

Character

Confusion

Courage

Crazy

Depressing

Details

Disaster

Dog

Errors

Faces

Facts

Fame

Goes On

Ideas

Inspirational

Journey

Literature

Making Money

Mind

Motive

Mystery

Needs

Order

People

Philosophical

Phrases

Poetic

Punishment

Scrap

Sickness

Study

Stupid

Suicide

Thinking

Use

World

Worry

Would Be

Writing

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Quotes by Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard

…He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it’s only feigned.

Everything is what it is, that’s all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.

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.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

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.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

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