Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Looks, Answers, Earth

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

• Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cancer, Men, Tree

• 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

  Spiritual, Pride, Erosion

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

• Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Drama, Heart, Age

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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