Elias Canetti Quotes
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.
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I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
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I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.
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Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
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He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!
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Everything you rejected and pushed aside-take it up again.
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Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.
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His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.
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You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.