Emil Cioran Quotes

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Emil Cioran

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• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Help
  • Small
  • Support

• Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Together
  • Want

• By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Bullying

• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • World
  • She
  • Doubt

• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • War
  • Selfish

• Even working from nature you have to compose.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Night

• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Night
  • Evil
  • Sleep

• There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Life

• So in the Libyan fable it is toldThat once an eagle, stricken with a dart,Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,'With our own feathers, not by others' hands,Are we now smitten.'

  

  Aeschylus
  • Fashion

• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beautiful
  • Study
  • Animal

• No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Good
  • Evil

• I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Great
  • Art
  • Character

• Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Movie

• You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Respect

• We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Interesting

• 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone - man with his God must strive.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Die
  • Alone

• In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Men
  • History
  • Friend

• Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit.

  

  Plautus

• The difference between winning this game and losing it is, you might say, the difference between facing big games now and desperation games.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Winning
  • Difference

• Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Solitude