Emil Cioran Quotes

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

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• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Fall

• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Stage
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Environment

• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Special
  • Fact
  • Elements

• My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Life
  • Children
  • Political

• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• When people are in trouble they need to talk.

  

  A. I. Bezzerides
  • People
  • Needs
  • Talking

• If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Respect
  • Principles
  • Measure

• Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Real
  • Gold
  • Buying

• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • My Mind
  • Dirty Feet

• Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

  

  William Baldwin
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Individual

• Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Nature
  • Criticize
  • Awe

• It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Men
  • Youth
  • Maturity

• Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

  

  Kazuya Minekura
  • Life
  • Nothing
  • Buddha

• When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

  

  Edward Smith
  • Sea
  • Experiences
  • Disaster

• I think it's important to control your opportunities, because in the entertainment world, it's not up to you. I'm not sitting here under this naive belief that someone in Hollywood is going, "Gaffigan! What kind of a show can I build around him?" So you have to find things that can showcase your point of view.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • World
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Accident
  • Simply