Top 15 Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.

I don’t know if it’s enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different.

Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions.

if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.

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

often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.

nothing comes of nothing after all.

Death the Laveller annihilates all distinctions.

There are photographs under the pistol, showing his mother genitals. These genitals make no perceptible impression on him, though it was through them that he first entered the world.

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.

Money is unimportant, but it is reassuring to have it.

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

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

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.

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.