On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we've been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.
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…
After all, there is nothing but failure. - Thomas Bernhard
After all, there is nothing but failure.
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…
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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