Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Powerful, Tears

• One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Doe, Language

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

• We inhabit a language rather than a country.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Language

• To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Blow, World, Language

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

• One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Language

• I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Fists, Language

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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