Quote

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

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
Whether
Keep
Long
God
Silent
Quiet
Dead
Impossible

More quotes by Elias Canetti

Image
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
Elias Canetti
Image
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
Elias Canetti
Image
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
Elias Canetti
Image
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.
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
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
Elias Canetti
Image
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
Image
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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
Image
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
Image
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
Elias Canetti
Image
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, but enjoy living become more serene, be happy in others belong to no one, grow in everyone love the best, comfort the worst not even hate myself anymore.
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
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
Elias Canetti
Image
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
Elias Canetti
Image
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Elias Canetti
Image
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti
Image
It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest
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
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Elias Canetti