Best Elias Canetti Sayings
- Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages All
- I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones.… Ahead
- Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did… Believe
- Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding. Inspirational
- ...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my… Eye
- The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind Act
- A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet. Constellation
- It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if… Actually Planning
- Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are… Accepting
- I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder,… All
- Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. Animal
- The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was… Acceptance
- The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. Each
- Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup… Bread