Emil Cioran Quotes

Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

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• Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Music
  • Control

• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Find
  • Loss
  • Moving On

• I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Goals
  • Based
  • Objectives

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Paid
  • Dues
  • Trenches

• He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Very

• Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Head
  • Coach
  • Oklahoma

• The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Law
  • Community

• When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Done
  • Think
  • Wish

• I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Never

• 'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Dark
  • Serious

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Islamic

• All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Energy

• My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • America
  • True
  • Words

• You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Food
  • Language
  • Clothes

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Hope
  • Spiritual

• Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Words
  • Language
  • Prayer