Elias Canetti Quotes

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I love life.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.