Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you'll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He's a fabulous father.

Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.

We must ensure that decisions we make today do not come back to haunt us tomorrow.

The decisions I make with my career is not just about me. It doesn't affect just me.

I don't think I can marry a person who I don't know; I can't imagine spending the rest of my life with him. I rather get to know the person first and then decide, instead of saying yes first and regretting it later.

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons