Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard

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Biography

Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture.

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Quotes by Thomas Bernhard

"Instead of committing suicide, people go to work."

Thomas Bernhard

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

Thomas Bernhard

"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."

Thomas Bernhard

"everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death"

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

"The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite."

Thomas Bernhard