Emil Cioran Quotes

I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

Emil Cioran

• Existence
• Curiosity
• Awareness
• Impossibility

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Winter
  • Kitchen
  • Waves

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Humble
  • Listen

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Justice
  • Effort

• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
  • Silent
  • Silver

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Black
  • New
  • Orange

• You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Feel
  • Thing
  • Sore

• The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • True
  • Literature

• I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Life
  • Earth

• When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Law

• What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

  

  Chip Esten
  • Real
  • Small
  • Heartfelt

• One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Life
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I have never heard of any convincing reason as to why we should privatize land at this stage.

  

  Meles Zenawi
  • Why

• The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.

  

  Mike Huckabee
  • People
  • America
  • Nations

• At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Day
  • End

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

  

  Sherri Shepherd
  • Baptist
  • Memories
  • Music

• I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Existence
  • Curiosity
  • Awareness