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

• I'm full of dust and guitars.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Dust
  • Guitars

• I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Dust
  • White Man
  • Chinaman

• Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Time
  • Space
  • Moving

• The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

  

  Hilary Beckles
  • World
  • Changed
  • Sentimentalities

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

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Dust
  • Masterpiece
  • Disintegration