Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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  • Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

    Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing
  • Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

  • There was a time when time did not yet exist.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

    Men  
    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

    Men  
    Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
  • Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

    "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
  • No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

  • We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

    "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.
  • the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

  • Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

    "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.
  • We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

  • Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

    "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
  • My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

  • Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

    Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
  • Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

    Men  
    "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.
  • Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

    "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
  • If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

    "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.
  • I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

  • The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

    Men  
  • The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

  • To hope is to contradict the future.

    Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.83, Arcade Publishing
  • Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

    Men  
  • Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.

    Men  
    Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
  • Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

    "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.
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