Emil Cioran Quotes

If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?

Emil Cioran

• Time
• Live
• Happy
• Death
• Friend
• Enemy
• Period

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• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

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• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

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• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

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• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
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• There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

  

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• I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

  

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• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

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• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

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• As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

  

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• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

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• I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

  

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• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

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• When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.

  

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• There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

  

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• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

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• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

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• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  

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• It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
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• In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.

  

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• Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

  

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• If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Time
  • Live
  • Happy