Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
- Thomas Bernhard
More Quotes By Thomas Bernhard
- It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
- On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do...
- You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life– a simulated existence, not a genuine existence....
- Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
- Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do...
- What can you do. You get a name, you’re called ‘Thomas Bernhard’, and it stays that way for...
- The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have...
- The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
- Everything is what it is, that’s all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive,...
- People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end...
- All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to...
- Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is...
- After all, there is nothing but failure.
- You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually...
- We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to...
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