Nothing but disaster follows from applause..

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

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..

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

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

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….

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death.

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

After all, there is nothing but failure..

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 ….

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….

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work..

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

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….