All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
Thomas BernhardI had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.
Thomas BernhardThe anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
Thomas BernhardOn the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we've been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.
Thomas Bernhard