Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Insomnia

Quotes about: Insomnia

• Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Paradise, Torture

• The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Animal, Insomnia

  "This column will change your life: Can't sleep, don't sleep" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

• Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Insomnia, Parent

  "Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

• What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Insomnia, Tunes

• What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Kind, Endure

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

• 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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Light, Diversity

• In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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