Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti
Elias Canettiwas a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 July 1905
CountrySwitzerland
Elias Canetti quotes about
occupies space success
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
add dead drop limb man oppose time
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.
fun animal sitting
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
inspirational dream helping
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
dying earth ugly
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.
eye people decision
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?
writing pages should
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
writing night infinite
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
men
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.
stars made constellations
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
men sight doubt
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight
boredom people adjusting
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
advice
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
lasts speak sentences
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.