Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Obsession

Quotes about: Obsession

• 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

• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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

• A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Civilization, Obsession, Moments

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

• What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Writing, Fifty

• 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.

• A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, People, Obsession

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

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