Quote

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

Elias Canetti

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
Aphorist
Author
Chemist
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Rousse
Elías Canetti
Dreams
Help
Inspirational
Helping
Forgetful
Dream
Forgetfulness
Things
Scream
Forgotten
Awareness

More quotes by Elias Canetti

Image
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
Elias Canetti
Image
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Elias Canetti
Image
...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 eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
Elias Canetti
Image
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Elias Canetti
Image
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
Image
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
Elias Canetti
Image
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
Elias Canetti
Image
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
Elias Canetti
Image
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
Elias Canetti
Image
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
Elias Canetti
Image
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 new. Good travellers are heartless.
Elias Canetti
Image
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Elias Canetti
Image
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
Elias Canetti
Image
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Elias Canetti
Image
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
Elias Canetti
Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
Elias Canetti
Image
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
Elias Canetti
Image
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
Elias Canetti
Image
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti
Image
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
Elias Canetti