161 Quotes by Thomas Bernhard

When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it’s lost.

But I’ve always been a genius of secrecy, I thought, quite unlike Wertheimer who basically couldn’t keep anything a secret, had to talk about everything, had to get everything out in the open as long as he lived. But naturally unlike most others we were lucky not to have to earn a cent because we had enough from the very beginning. Whereas.

Bosque, monte alto, tala”.

We don’t have to be ashamed, but we are nothing, and we earn nothing but chaos.

Der Mensch geht immer nur so weit, wie er glaubt, dass die Welt geht.

Years later the world confirmed my judgment, but this only pained me, like everything confirmed by the newspapers. We exist, we don’t have any other choice, Glenn.

He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn’t enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.

We had taken him for a Norwegian ship’s captain and had come to his table to hear some more about seafaring, not about philosophy, from which, indeed, we had fled north from Central Europe.