Thomas Bernhard citáty

„Příroda netrpí nevyléčitelné nemoci.“

„Sebevražda patří ke zločinům, jež je třeba jednoznačně odmítnout: že člověk za sebou zase zavře dveře, které rozevřel: to je nemožné: pokračovat tak, že odumřeme, otupíme a odumřeme.“

„Poezie jsou jen rytmizované polomyšlenky.“

„Na následky popálenin zemřela v jedné římské nemocnici nejinteligentnější a nejvýznamnější spisovatelka, která v tomto století vzešla z naší země.“

“Very often we write down a sentencethen anotherwhat we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”

“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”

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

“I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.”

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”

“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, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”

“Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.”

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

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

“You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.”

“I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself…”

“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.”

“After all, there is nothing but failure.”

“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One… Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”