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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Life
  • Real
  • Diamond

• Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

  

  John Milton
  • Nature
  • WIld
  • Abyss

• If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Audience

• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Labor
  • Background
  • My Father

• I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Team

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

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Disease
  • Wound
  • Recovers