152 Quotes by Elias Canetti

...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?

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

Beauty always has something remote.

In eternity everything is just beginning.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.