Emil Cioran Quotes

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Emil Cioran

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

  

  Wale
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Pride

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Space
  • Kind

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Future
  • Violence

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Light
  • Marriage
  • Religious

• Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul

• Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Persistence

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging

• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Attitude

• World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • World

• To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Deep
  • Beloved
  • Goes On

• Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

  

  Mark Davis
  • Imagine
  • Female
  • Senator

• Privilege is a made up metric used to silence and repress. We are all different, and that is ok. We listen to individuals and help each other based on individual strengths and needs. We do not generalize based on skin color, bigot.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Help

• A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Australia
  • Cricket
  • Tour

• Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Paradise