Emil Cioran Quotes

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

Emil Cioran

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• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • School
  • Small
  • Small Town

• If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • American
  • Success

• I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Travel

• I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Say
  • Clothes
  • Been

• I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Athlete

• I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Question

• The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • World
  • American
  • Free

• I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Change
  • Hair
  • Color

• I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Office

• As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Democracy

• Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Books

• I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Home
  • Business

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

  

  Petrarch
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Ends

• However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Fighting
  • Internet

• Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

  

  Emil Cioran