Emil Cioran Quotes
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
Quotes to Explore
-
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
-
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
-
All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
-
We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
-
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
-
I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
-
Silence is a text easy to misread.
-
I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
-
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
-
You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.
-
Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!
-
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.
-
I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I'm not a superhero now. I'm not some sort of celebrity that doesn't have feelings. I'm very, very normal.
-
We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.
-
Too much emotion is like none at all.
-
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
-
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.
-
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
-
On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.
-
Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.
-
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
-
Sometimes Christians speak of each decision of their lives as though they were launching a moon-shot where a single miscalculation would send the capsule into a trackless void. Even space scientist do better than that, correcting the flight of their space-probes by radioed signals. God does much better. He knows that we are often incapable of distinguishing trivial decisions from momentous ones, and that we are foolish and imperceptive. He knows---- and keeps us in his hand.
-
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
