Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 12

Quotes about:

• The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spiritual, Leader, Limits

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

  5 Copy quote

• If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Limits, Injustice, Crime

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

  7 Copy quote

• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

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

  10 Copy quote

• We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Believe, Suffering, Moments

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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Rejection, Substance

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

  6 Copy quote

• Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Progress, Generations, Injustice

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

  11 Copy quote

• All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Desire, Holes, Eros

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

  5 Copy quote

• Tears do not burn except in solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Tears

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

  5 Copy quote

• No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Grief, Grieving, Use

  11 Copy quote

• An existence transfigured by failure.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Existence

  4 Copy quote

• Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Silence, Mouths, Speech

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

  9 Copy quote

• We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Alive, Normal

  9 Copy quote

• One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lonely, Loneliness, Two

  4 Copy quote

• I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Zero, Struggle, Intention

  4 Copy quote

• Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Animal, Men

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

  5 Copy quote

• Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Taught, Spirituality

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

  4 Copy quote

• Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Next Day, World, Illusion

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

  4 Copy quote

• I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vanity, Trying, Gang

  4 Copy quote

• It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Injustice, Quintessence, This Society

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

  7 Copy quote

• God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

  Emile M. Cioran

  God, Atheism, Disease

  "The Trouble with Being Born". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1973.

  7 Copy quote

• The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Ideas, Grudge

  5 Copy quote

• True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Victory, Moral

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

  5 Copy quote

• At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Events, Moments

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

  5 Copy quote

• There is no limit to suffering.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Limits

  6 Copy quote

Page 12 of 15

First

← Prev

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin