Quotes by : Thomas Bernhard

Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.....

When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and....

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original....

The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly....

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental....

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about....

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.....

People are always talking about it being their duty to find their way to their fellow men — to their....

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.