Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

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

What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.