Emil Cioran Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
-
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
-
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
-
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
-
We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
-
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
-
Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
-
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
-
I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
-
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
-
Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
-
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
-
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
-
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
-
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
-
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
-
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
-
I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
-
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
-
Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.
-
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
-
Thank you to the bowlers who frequented Fountain Bowl, many of whom have become our friends.
-
If the E.U. allows itself to be priced out of the world economy, the next generation will not get jobs, living standards will decline, and the Union will lose the popular consent of the people of Europe.
-
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
