T > T's Quotes

“Es gibt ja nur Gescheitertes. In dem wir wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, kommen wir vorwärts und wir müssen in jeder Sache und in allem und in jedem immer wieder wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, wenn wir noch schon sehr früh zugrunde gehen wollen, was tatsächlich nicht die Absicht sein kann, mit welcher wir da sind.”
― Thomas Bernhard

“Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble.
And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.”
― Sergei Dovlatov, The Suitcase

“Harper: You, the one part of
the real world I wasn't allergic to.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“Da ich nun einmal nicht imstande war, die Menschen vernünftiger zu machen, war ich lieber fern von ihnen glücklich.”
― Voltaire

“Atque metum tantum concepit tunc mea mater. Ut pareret geminos, meque metumque simul.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves