“Words Ruin One's Thoughts, Paper Makes Them Ridiculous, And Even While One Is Still Glad To Get Something Ruined And Something Ridiculous Down On Paper, One's Memory Manages To Lose Hold Of Even This Ruined And Ridiculous Something. Paper Can Turn An Enormity Into A Triviality, An Absurdity. If You Look At It This Way, Then Whatever Appears In The World, By Way Of The Spiritual World So To Speak, Is Always A Ruined Thing, A Ridiculous Thing, Which Means That Everything In This World Is Ridiculous And Ruined. Words Were Made To Demean Thought, I Would Even Go So Far As To State That Words Exist In Order To Abolish Thought, And One Day They Will Succeed One Hundred Percent In So Doing. In Any Case, Words (are) Bringing Everything Down. Depression Derives From Words, Nothing Else.”
— Thomas Bernhard —
Related Authors
- Carolyn McCulley
- Cass Daley
- Derek Barton
- Mohd Riyaz Ali
- Samuel Witwer
- Sundiata Acoli
- Tom Topor
- Woody Milintachinda
Related Topics
-
Quotes About Doggedness
“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and” — J.M. Coetzee
-
Quotes About Anger And Frustration
“So it was all like, Caroline continues to have behavioral problems. She struggling a lot with anger and frustration over not being” — John Green
-
Stress And Food Quotes
“Avoid stress, the doctor had said. Eat lots of good food and enjoy this little mysterious bun cooking in the oven. Ha!” — Thea Harrison
-
Quotes About Mind And Thinking
“Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one” — J.I. Packer
-
Quotes About Retailers
“My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I cant remember a time in my life when I could go to a” — Lindy West
-
Aching Muscles Quotes
“The world aint so bad, when you got Japhies, I thought, and felt glad. All the aching muscles and the hunger in” — Jack Kerouac
-
Life At 50 Years Old Quotes
“Anyway, it was Oscar who called me to remind me that our nephew, Lydias son Garnett, was turning eleven years old. Fuck my” — Richard J. O'Brien
-
Bend Or Break Quotes
“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.” — Robert Graves