Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Strong, Adventure, Blood

• The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Return, Welcome

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

• What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Madness, Appeals, Difficult

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

• I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Believe, Men, Acting

• So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Long, Madness

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

• I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Morning, Night, Mad

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

• Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Madness, Utopia

• We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vitality, Madness, Stores

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