Pessimist Quotes by 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…

— 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

“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

The planets survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

— Elias Canetti

“Najbolјa definicija zavičaja jeste biblioteka.”

— Elias Canetti

“Das Nicht-Wissen darf am Wissen nicht verarmen.”

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In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

— Elias Canetti

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

— Elias Canetti

“Ionako ne postoji oskudica u osrednjim glavama.”

— Elias Canetti

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

— Elias Canetti

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and…

— Elias Canetti

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

— Elias Canetti