Emil Cioran Quotes

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Emil Cioran

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• When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

  

  Edmund White
  • College
  • Always
  • Saying

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Cricket

• There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Wish
  • Treat

• I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Fashion

• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Community
  • Mean

• We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

  

  Aristotle
  • Courageous
  • Must
  • Cowardly

• Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.

  

  George Foreman
  • Opportunity
  • Pay
  • Serving

• If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.

  

  Confucius
  • Catch
  • Chase
  • Rabbits

• But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Up
  • Damn
  • Wound

• The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Littles
  • Return
  • Details

• As we sat down, Barney late as usual, it came home to me how there were some things I didn’t miss about drinking, like choosing the wine. This now seemed like a right load of old bollocks. Hey, believe me, in the past I was just as guilty as everybody else. ‘Is it from the south side of the vineyard? Has it been trod by an Albanian virgin?’ All that crap! Basically just showing off, because believe you me, and you know I would not lie to you, a couple of glasses in, and I’m sure no one, not even Barney, could have told the difference between the finest Chablis and donkey piss.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Home
  • Guilty
  • Drinking

• No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Disease
  • Wound
  • Recovers