Canetti Quotes
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A child ... opens and closes like a blossom.
— Elias Canetti
Seizing and incorporating ... There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]
— Elias Canetti
People's fates are simplified by their names.
— Elias Canetti
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
— Elias Canetti
The fluid boundary between individuals and types is a true concern of the real writer.
— Elias Canetti
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
— Elias Canetti
The business friend did not recognize the sewerman, which was not surprising as the man's face was no more than a shining turd.
— Elias Canetti
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
— Elias Canetti
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
— Elias Canetti
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.
— Elias Canetti
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
— Elias Canetti
Beauty always has something remote.
— Elias Canetti
It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
— Elias Canetti
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
— Elias Canetti
In eternity everything is just beginning.
— Elias Canetti
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
— Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
— Elias Canetti
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
— Elias Canetti
A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.
— Elias Canetti
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
— Elias Canetti
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
— Elias Canetti
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
— Elias Canetti
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
— Elias Canetti
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
— Elias Canetti
There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
— Elias Canetti
There is something fluid about [packs] during the course of any individual manifestation. [p. 127]
— Elias Canetti
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
— Elias Canetti
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
— Elias Canetti
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
— Elias Canetti
Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.
— Elias Canetti
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
— Elias Canetti
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
— Elias Canetti
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
— Elias Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
— Elias Canetti
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
— Elias Canetti
The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]
— Elias Canetti
One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
— Elias Canetti
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
— Elias Canetti
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
— Elias Canetti
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
— Elias Canetti
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
— Elias Canetti
A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.
— Elias Canetti
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
— Elias Canetti
Learning is the art of ignoring.
— Elias Canetti
Relearn astonishment.
— Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
— Elias Canetti
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
— Elias Canetti