All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti · The source reads: “Alles was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe. All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

Some sentences release their poison only after years.

Elias Canetti · Notebook entry (1942), in The Human Province (1973)

No poet comes into being without the disorder of reading.

Elias Canetti · The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)

It is always the enemy who started it. Even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

Elias Canetti · Crowds and Power (1960)

More Dreams Quotes

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

The Bible · Proverbs 29:18

Facts are better than dreams.

Winston Churchill · Churchill on the night he became prime minister, feeling as if he were walking with destiny.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Isadora Duncan · My Life (1927)

General Knowledge

Every general-knowledge topic and the A-to-Z lists.

World Encyclopedia

The world A to Z: flags, countries, the sciences, places, people, subjects.

We Value Your Opinion Comments

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

“Some sentences release their poison only after years.”

“No poet comes into being without the disorder of reading.”

“It is always the enemy who started it. Even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.”

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

“Facts are better than dreams.”

“I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.”