Emil Cioran Quotes

If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.

Emil Cioran

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• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Place

• Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Career
  • Start

• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Say
  • Knowing

• Be in love with your life every detail of it

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life

• Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Strong
  • Eyes

• As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact-if we didn't also happen to have the Qur'an.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Bible

• It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Friend
  • Cool
  • Sick

• I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Chess

• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Science
  • Alone

• The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Small
  • Band

• Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Remember
  • Charity

• I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.

  

  Lois Frankel

• I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Hope

• Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Time
  • Says
  • Celebs

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• There is a way of beating ISIS so easily, so quickly, so effectively, and it would be so nice...I know a way that would absolutely give us guaranteed victory...the problem is then everybody will take the idea, run with it and then people will forget where it came from...I ran it past two or three people. It's so simple. It's like the paper clip.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Past
  • Nice

• In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Clouds