Author: Thomas Bernhard
Cites
- Thomas Bernhard (2)
- IN: Correction (1975) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: A body needs at least / three points of support, / not in a straight line, / to fix its position, / so Roithamer had written.
FROM: Correction, (1975), Novel, Germany
- IN: The Lime Works (1970) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: But instead of thinking about my book, and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting my footsteps until I feel about to go mad.
FROM: The Lime Works, (1970), Novel, Germany
- Michel de Montaigne (1)
- IN: Extinction (1986) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: I feel death ever pinching me by the throat, or pulling me by the back.
FROM: Essays, (1580), Book, France
- Søren Kierkegaard (1)
- IN: Old Masters (1989) Fiction, Comedy, German
EPIGRAPH: The punishment matches the guilt: to be deprived of all appetite for life, to be brought to the highest degree of weariness of life.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
- Voltaire (1)
- IN: Woodcutters (1984) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
Cited by
- Thomas Bernhard (2)
- IN: Correction (1975) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: A body needs at least / three points of support, / not in a straight line, / to fix its position, / so Roithamer had written.
FROM: Correction, (1975), Novel, Germany
- IN: The Lime Works (1970) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: But instead of thinking about my book, and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting my footsteps until I feel about to go mad.
FROM: The Lime Works, (1970), Novel, Germany
- Jaspreet Singh (1)
- IN: Chef (2008) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The cold is eating into the center of my brain.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Austria
- Cristovão Tezza (1)
- IN: The Eternal Son (2007) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: We wish to tell the truth but fail to do so. We describe something truthfully, but our description is something other than the truth.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Austria