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.
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. - Thomas Bernhard
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
- Thomas Bernhard
The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable. - Thomas Bernhard
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… - Thomas Bernhard
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…
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… - Thomas Bernhard
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…
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… - Thomas Bernhard
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…
After all, there is nothing but failure. - Thomas Bernhard
After all, there is nothing but failure.
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death - Thomas Bernhard
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others. - Thomas Bernhard
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. - Thomas Bernhard
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
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