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

- 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…

- Thomas Bernhard

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

- 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…

- 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…

- Thomas Bernhard

After all, there is nothing but failure.

- Thomas Bernhard

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

- Thomas Bernhard

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

- Thomas Bernhard

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

- Thomas Bernhard