Thomas Bernhard Quotes

Don't over think too much.

Life isn't easy but it's not as complicated as we make it out to be.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

It's important not to think too much about what you do.

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

You always have to keep some lucidity.

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

You look confused," said Adrian. I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things." He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.