Emil Cioran Quotes

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Emil Cioran

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• A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Success
  • Influence

• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Words

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Choices
  • Hero
  • Creative

• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Modesty
  • Fidelity

• I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • American
  • My Life

• If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Home
  • You
  • Paradise

• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • Year
  • Looking Back

• Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Remember
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Poor

• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Bad
  • Taken
  • Old

• The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Nature
  • Community
  • Ukrainian

• The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Different
  • American

• I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Just
  • Missed
  • Sydney

• I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Movie
  • Technology
  • Feel

• Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • Family

• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Sacrifice
  • Paid
  • Human Mind

• From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • People
  • Said
  • British

• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

  

  Cheryl Strayed
  • Fun
  • Bored

• It is not uncommon for highly agitating situations to show up right before a major breakthrough takes place in our lives. In fact, we can definitely prepare for a breakthrough when the enemy starts using agitation against us.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Situations
  • Prepare
  • Breakthrough

• When you have a lot of time, when you're not working a full-time job, you have a lot of time to question things and think about things. Some of it's about romantic relationships, some of it's about drugs, about religion, about this mass of humanity traveling through life doing all this crazy stuff, not really knowing why or for what.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Humanity

• The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

  

  Emil Cioran