Elias Canetti Quotes

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

Dreams, Help, Forgotten

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti

Children, Enjoy, Find

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

Fear, Darkness, Unexpected

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
Elias Canetti

Made, Stars, Head

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti

Food, Justice, Enough

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Elias Canetti

True, Someone, Lie

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti

Nothing, Him, Strange

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Elias Canetti

Love, Hate, Accusation

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Elias Canetti

Boring, Pessimists

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias Canetti

Single, Writing, Night

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Elias Canetti

Death, Made, Guilty

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Elias Canetti

Success, Else, Deaf

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Elias Canetti

Death, Today, Ugly

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Elias Canetti

Life, Down, Write

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
Elias Canetti

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti

Time, Nothing, Off

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti

Good, Bad, Person

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Elias Canetti

Decision, Eyes, Why

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti

Matter, Idea, Matters

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Elias Canetti

Life, Confuse, Craving

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias Canetti

Praise, Recognize

People's fates are simplified by their names.
Elias Canetti

Names, Fates, Simplified

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Elias Canetti

War, Victim, Invent

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti

Success, Space, Newspaper

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Author

Born: July 25, 1905

Died: August 13, 1994

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