Emil Cioran Quotes
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To live in a saint's heart? I'm afraid of setting the sky ablaze.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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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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They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
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The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the 'meaning' of life.
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Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
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Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.
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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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I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.
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To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.
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All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.
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The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.
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Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
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The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.
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Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
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Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
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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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The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.
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I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
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No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?