Emil M. Cioran Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Emil M. Cioran
Emil M. Cioran Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall.
Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation.
The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.
You with your veins full of night - you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of a circus.
Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
The mission of Everyman is to fulfill the lies he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhaust illusion.
Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.
My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more.
A remark of my brother's apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: "Old age is nature's self-criticism.
If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!
A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.
Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.
Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.
The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.