Gehen Quotes

“The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

“We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

“Whenever I see someone thinking, can I therefore infer from this how he walks? I ask myself, says Oehler, if I see someone walking can I infer how he thinks? No, of course, I may not ask myself this question, for this question is one of those questions that may not be asked because they cannot be asked without being nonsense. But naturally we may not reproach someone who walks, whose walking we have analyzed, for his thinking, before we know his thinking. Just as we may not reproach someone who thinks for his walking before we know his walking. How carelessly this person walks we often think and very often how carelessly this person thinks, and we soon come to realize that this person walks in exactly the same way as he thinks, thinks the same way as he walks. However, we may not ask ourselves how we walk, for then we walk differently from the way we really walk and our walking simply cannot be judged, just as we may not ask ourselves how we think, for then we cannot judge how we think because it is no longer our thinking.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Walking: A Novella

“Da sam imao razum, kaže Elmer, da sam neprekidno imao razum, kaže on, odavno bih se ubio, ali nisam se ubio, jer nisam neprekidno imao razum.”
― Thomas Bernhard , Gehen

“There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gehen