Top 108 Emil Cioran Quotes December 19, 2020 by Krista Aniston Leave a Comment “The Universal view melts things into a blur.”― Emil Cioran“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.”― Emil Cioran“Everything is pathology, except for indifference.”― Emil Cioran“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.”― Emil Cioran“Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.”― Emil Cioran“Tolerance – the function of an extinguished ardor – tolerance cannot seduce the young.”― Emil Cioran“To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.”― Emil Cioran“Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.”― Emil Cioran“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”― Emil Cioran“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”― Emil Cioran“Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.”― Emil Cioran“A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.”― Emil Cioran“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name – and moving on.”― Emil Cioran“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”― Emil Cioran“My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.”― Emil Cioran“Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.”― Emil Cioran“Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”― Emil Cioran“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”― Emil Cioran“We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.”― Emil Cioran“For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”― Emil Cioran“In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.”― Emil Cioran“Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.”― Emil Cioran“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”― Emil Cioran“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”― Emil Cioran“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”― Emil Cioran“Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.”― Emil Cioran“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.”― Emil Cioran“Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.”― Emil Cioran“Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.”― Emil Cioran“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.”― Emil Cioran“We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.”― Emil Cioran“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”― Emil Cioran“Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”― Emil Cioran“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.”― Emil Cioran“We derive our vitality from our store of madness.”― Emil Cioran“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”― Emil Cioran“A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.”― Emil Cioran“Word – that invisible dagger.”― Emil Cioran“Under each formula lies a corpse.”― Emil Cioran“The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.”― Emil Cioran“You are done for – a living dead man – not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.”― Emil Cioran“However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.”― Emil Cioran“The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.”― Emil Cioran“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you – what a revelation.”― Emil Cioran“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”― Emil Cioran“I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.”― Emil Cioran“A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”― Emil Cioran“Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven’t been cut off.”― Emil Cioran“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”― Emil Cioran“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”― Emil Cioran“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”― Emil Cioran“The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.”― Emil Cioran“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”― Emil Cioran“A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.”― Emil Cioran“Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.”― Emil Cioran“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”― Emil Cioran“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”― Emil Cioran“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”― Emil Cioran“Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown.”― Emil Cioran“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”― Emil Cioran“We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.”― Emil Cioran“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.”― Emil Cioran“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”― Emil Cioran“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”― Emil Cioran“Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.”― Emil Cioran“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade tot he void.”― Emil Cioran“Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.”― Emil Cioran“We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.”― Emil Cioran“So long as man is protected by madness – he functions – and flourishes.”― Emil Cioran“Truths begin by a conflict with the police – and end by calling them in.”― Emil Cioran“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”― Emil Cioran“To Live signifies to believe and hope – to lie and to lie to oneself.”― Emil Cioran“We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.”― Emil Cioran“It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.”― Emil Cioran“When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.”― Emil Cioran“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.”― Emil Cioran“Glory – once achieved, what is it worth?”― Emil Cioran“No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.”― Emil Cioran“Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.”― Emil Cioran“A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation’s paradise and its tomb.”― Emil Cioran“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”― Emil Cioran“Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”― Emil Cioran“I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.”― Emil Cioran“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.”― Emil Cioran“Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.”― Emil Cioran“We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”― Emil Cioran“To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”― Emil Cioran“Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.”― Emil Cioran“If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.”― Emil Cioran“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”― Emil Cioran“The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.”― Emil Cioran“Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”― Emil Cioran“We inhabit a language rather than a country.”― Emil Cioran“I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”― Emil Cioran“I have no nationality – the best possible status for an intellectual.”― Emil Cioran“The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.”― Emil Cioran“Our first intuitions are the true ones.”― Emil Cioran“The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.”― Emil Cioran“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.”― Emil Cioran“God – a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.”― Emil Cioran“Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.”― Emil Cioran“A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.”― Emil Cioran“Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.”― Emil Cioran“Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.”― Emil Cioran“To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.”― Emil Cioran“Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.”― Emil Cioran“I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.”― Emil Cioran“One should live and die where one was born… I’ve been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?”― Emil Cioran
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