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

• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hand
  • Son
  • Same

• 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

• It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Really
  • Baking
  • Soda

• 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

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Important
  • Faith

• France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Home

• 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

• But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Dark

• I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• We are very pleased with our accelerated time to market as evidenced by delivering the market's first workforce optimization solution, and the ability to meet our customers' requirements and changing needs even more effectively. Key to this was our relationship with FCG India, many of whose employees will soon join Witness Systems' global R&D organization. The initial impact they've had on the business has been significant, and we look forward to many more achievements and successes driven out of this arm of our R&D operation.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Relationship
  • Market
  • Solution

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

  

  Emil Cioran