“The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.” ExistenceLivingHuman Condition Book:Gehen Source: Gehen
“...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.” KnowsReasonCoursesAsksCausesExistenceSuicideDetails Author:Thomas Bernhard
“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.” RealExistenceReal LifeGenuinePretense Book:Woodcutters Source: Woodcutters
“Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.” PeopleThinkingFirstsCountryShowsBornWalksExistenceWalkingTasteOriginalsAbsurdFuneralNoticingGrotesqueIdioticIdiocy Book:The Loser: A Novel Source: The Loser: A Novel
