Elias Canetti: Nothing

Elias Canetti was Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on nothing.

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“I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.”

Elias Canetti

“He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.—How contemptible!”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 92
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 130
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 147
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“Say the most personal thing, say it, nothing else matters, don’t be ashamed, the generalities can be found in the newspaper.”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 143
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)