Elfriede Jelinek citáty

„Sexuální náslilí nemá se sexualitou nic společného, nýbrž jen s násilím.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek

„má-li někdo osud, pak je to muž. je-li někomu osud přidělený, tak ženě.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek

„Žena se většinou spokojí s náznakem toho, co umí.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek

„Kdo mi není k užitku, ten škodí sám sobě, je heslem konzumentů lidí.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek

„He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Zdroj: Wonderful, Wonderful Times

„Vice is basically the love of failure.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, Pianolærerinnen

Zdroj: Pianolærerinnen

„Rainer [protagonist in the novel], who is reading The Outsider by Camus, says he would like to put the hostility of the world behind him. Once your hope for something better is taken from you, then at last you have the present all in your hand. Then you yourself are reality. Others are extras. When Rainer contemplated san evening he says that evening is melancholy ceasefire where all life has come to and end.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

53
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

„We are monsters, even if we disguise ourselves as ordinary people. We are the children of ordinary people but we are not content with that. Inwardly we are consumed with wickedness, outwardly we are grammar school pupils.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher

P 27
The Piano Teacher (1988)

„The rules of art do not exist, because what makes art art is the fact that it obeys no rules at all.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 44
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

„I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher

P 65
The Piano Teacher (1988)

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

—  Elfriede Jelinek

P 8
Women As Lovers (1994)

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

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

P 203
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

„Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 48
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

—  Elfriede Jelinek

p 3
Women As Lovers (1994)

„The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha The Piano Teacher

P 118
The Piano Teacher (1988)

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

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

P 179
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

—  Elfriede Jelinek

p 2
Women As Lovers (1994)

„For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, kniha Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 7
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)