Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love Is, Heaven, Solitude

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

• The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, Solitude, Sole

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

• Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspirational, Fear, Real

• Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Encounters, Doing Nothing

• Tears do not burn except in solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Tears

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

• The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Solitude, Principles

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

• The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Voice, Solitude, Doe

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

• Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Sin, Purity

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

• You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Protect, Ifs

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.69, Arcade Publishing

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