Emil Cioran Quotes
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
Quotes to Explore
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I know there are thousands of images of me.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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The further from one another, the nearer one can be.
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
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Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
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I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
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I am learning how to be detached. I hate myself for being so possessive, not of material things, but just of love and people.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
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We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
