Emil Cioran Quotes

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

Emil Cioran

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• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Gods
  • Dust

• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Color
  • Missing

• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Life
  • Music
  • Everyday

• Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Enough

• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Dust
  • Minute
  • Assimilated

• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Suffering

• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Light
  • Joy
  • Everyday

• You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Advantage

• But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Death
  • Dust
  • Resurrection

• So, then, even the dust is a resting-place of hope for the people of God.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

  

  William Cowper
  • Dust
  • Contests
  • Contention

• Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Important
  • Laugh

• Woman is the masterpiece.

  

  Confucius
  • Woman
  • Masterpiece

• Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Dust
  • Mouth
  • Senses

• One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Discover
  • Dust

• We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Start
  • Dust
  • Disconnected

• The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Dust
  • Seeker

• Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet’s crust crumbles to dust.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Dust

• With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf spill. There were so many similarities: the drains and the siphoning and the tubes. And also in the way the earth was hurt, the ocean was bleeding. Remember the video cams of the oil gushing? I couldn't stop watching that.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Remember
  • Hurt
  • Bleeding

• A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Space
  • Significance
  • Spacious

• There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Together
  • Evil

• I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Dust
  • Masterpiece
  • Disintegration