The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others..

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work..

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable..

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….

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, h….

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

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death.

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….

After all, there is nothing but failure..

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way..

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist.

What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a ….

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 everyt….

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 ….

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 t….

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together..

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

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you..

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

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost..

Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial..