Famous Thomas Bernhard Quotes

  • We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake. – Thomas Bernhard

    We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.– Thomas Bernhard

  • All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. – Thomas Bernhard

    All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.– Thomas Bernhard

  • There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday. – Thomas Bernhard

    There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.– Thomas Bernhard

  • The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything-”and this is the most cruel law-”continually gets worse. – Thomas Bernhard

    The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything-”and this is the most cruel law-”continually gets worse.– Thomas Bernhard

  • Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with. – Thomas Bernhard

    Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.– Thomas Bernhard

  • To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One… Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach. – Thomas Bernhard

    To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One… Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.– Thomas Bernhard

  • everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death – Thomas Bernhard

    everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death– Thomas Bernhard

  • Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. – Thomas Bernhard

    Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.– Thomas Bernhard

  • Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent. – Thomas Bernhard

    Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.– Thomas Bernhard

  • 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.– Thomas Bernhard