Quotes by : Thomas Bernhard

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....

On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand....

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....

He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides....

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

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame there's no other motive except the even baser one of....

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into....

When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then....