Quotes by : Elias Canetti

All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of....

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that....

At home in the nursery, I usually played alone. Actually, I seldom played, I spoke to the wallpaper.....

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old;....

For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely....

The fluid boundary between individuals and types is a true concern of the real writer.

Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in....

Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.