Emil Cioran Quotes

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void.

Emil Cioran

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• I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Why
  • Remember

• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Good
  • She
  • Man

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Want
  • Win
  • Choose

• I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Best
  • Human
  • Boss

• I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

  

  Young Thug
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Gender

• People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Athlete

• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Just

• Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • House
  • Spirit
  • Give

• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  

  Gary North
  • God
  • Why
  • Law

• I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Never

• All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart, and we understand that.

  

  Jason Kilar
  • Time
  • Heart

• Come lovely and soothing death,Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,In the day, in the night, to all, to each,Sooner or later, delicate death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • Death
  • Night

• The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

  

  George C. Marshall
  • Time
  • Mind

• We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void.

  

  Emil Cioran