Emil Cioran Quotes
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
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When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.
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It is unjust to call imaginary the diseases which are, on the contrary, only too real, since they proceed from our mind, the only regulator of our equilibrium and our health.
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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Nothing is indefensible - from the absurdest proposition to the most monstrous crime.
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If I used to ask myself, over a coffin, 'what good did it do the occupant to be born?' I now put the same question about anyone alive.
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.
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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
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The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
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No one has the audacity to exclaim: 'I don’t want to do anything!' -we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions.
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Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
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Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.
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He who hates himself is not humble.
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They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.
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Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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'Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt.' - This point in the Gita is my death sentence.
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Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
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How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
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Eternity is absence.