The Children of the Dead Quotes

“No doubt, history is sometimes a little bit feminine, well, we ladies do have our own herstory once a month, which we relish as long as we can.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“If only we were able one more time to come, to touch something solid, hard, that we did not buy but stole from our own body, with our own hands (a vain unveiling)! Not to be dead, just once!”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“Only at the Olympics or at our own death, being there is ALL that's asked of us.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“Everyone is a room of their own where others roam through, roughing it up at their leisure.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“It takes so little to be dead, and yet death is so difficult to grasp.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“Humans become their own memorials, so that we, in turn, don't have to remember them.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“Thus we believe the dead don't understand us, just because we don't understand them.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“Everyone always wants to be and receive something better than they are and have.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“The two creatures, mother and daughter, hammer and anvil (better to be the anvil, you don’t have to rise above life so grimly),”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead

“some of the old folks in this inn, who never keep quiet, for they know: For them, the silence is about to start.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Children of the Dead