152 Quotes by Elias Canetti

Ionako ne postoji oskudica u osrednjim glavama.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

The planet’s survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking in nourishment, yet it is well defended, but ears – ears are a prey to every onslaught.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?

In the hierarchy of man’s activities, eating was the lowest. Eating had become the object of a cult, but in fact it was but the preliminary to other, utterly contemptible motions. It occurred to him that he wanted to perform one of these too.

It doesn’t matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

People's fates are simplified by their names.