Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.

There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.

Forewarned is forearmed.

There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.

Art is not a Trojan horse.

Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.

Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner.

Murder and assault are not lunacy; they are the logical conclusions if you live a life without an assured financial foundation.

Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.

sewing in itself is already in the women's blood.

Just keep following my tears, and the brook will take you in.

nothing comes of nothing after all.

The poet is a king in his realm. His is empire of imagination, in which there are unlimited mansions.

Death the Laveller annihilates all distinctions.

Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.