Emil Cioran Quotes
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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I don't die in anything!
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.
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My mother's my biggest supporter.
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Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
