Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• 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

• To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Morning, Giving, Waiting

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

• The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ghost, Mask, Curtains

• How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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

• Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Epilepsy, Life Is, Geometry

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

• Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Pay, Damage

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

• Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Melancholy, Universe

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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