Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Flaws, Crime

• To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Morning, Giving, Waiting

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

• What are you waiting for in order to give up?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving Up, Order, Giving

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

• Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Music, Thinking, Giving

• What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Moving On, Names, Giving

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

• Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Imperfection, Littles

• We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Despair, Void

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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