Elias Canetti Quotes

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

...New Beginning to the same old story

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.