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Emile M. Cioran Quotes
So long as man is
protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Emile M. Cioran
Society is not a
disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in
it.
Emile M. Cioran
Speech and
silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot
open his mouth.
Emile M. Cioran
The desire to die
was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even
death.
Emile M. Cioran
The fact that life
has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
Emile M. Cioran
The fear of being
deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
The mind is the
result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Emile M. Cioran
The more we try to
rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
Emile M. Cioran
The multiplication
of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the
preposterous.
Emile M. Cioran
The Universal view
melts things into a blur.
Emile M. Cioran
There is no means
of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emile M. Cioran
To act is to
anchor in the imminent future.
Emile M. Cioran
To devastate by
language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
Emile M. Cioran
To Live signifies
to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran
To venture upon an
undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice
to envy.
Emile M. Cioran
To want fame is to
prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran
Tolerance - the
function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emile M. Cioran
Truths begin by a
conflict with the police- and end by calling them in.
Emile M. Cioran
We are afraid of
the enormity of the possible.
Emile M. Cioran
We are born to
Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
We define only out
of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Emile M. Cioran
We derive our
vitality from our store of madness.
Emile M. Cioran
We die in
proportion to the words we fling around us.
Emile M. Cioran
We inhabit a
language rather than a country.
Emile M. Cioran
We interest others
by the misfortune we spread around us.
Emile M. Cioran
We understand God
by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and
inopportune.
Emile M. Cioran
What does the
future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with
eternity?
Emile M. Cioran
What pride to
discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emile M. Cioran
What surrounds us
we endure better for giving it a name- and moving on.
Emile M. Cioran
What would be left
of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Emile M. Cioran
When we cannot be
delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Who Rebels? Who
rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned
slave.
Emile M. Cioran
Woes and wonders
of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. Cioran
Write books only
if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide
to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran
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