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 find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, 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…
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
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. - Thomas Bernhard
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
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.
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