Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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• By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Evidence

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

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  Ideas, Way, Next

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

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  Demand, Hell, Protest

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

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  Suicide, Succeed, Reason

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• What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

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  Morning, Night, Endure

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

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  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Chaos, Chaos In The World

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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  Intuition, Firsts, True Ones

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

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  Men, Order, Together

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

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  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

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  Cancer, Men, Tree

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

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  Girl, Philosophical, Fighting

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Too Late

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

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  Country, Groups, Feels

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• The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

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  Meaning Of Life, Facts, Reason

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

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  Life Sucks, Best Laid Plans, Hate Life

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

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  Love, Art, Knowing

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• I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

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  Enemy, Ends, Decided

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

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  Cynical, Democracy, Mediocrity

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• Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

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  Passion, Reality, Men

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

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  Animal, Men, Kingdoms

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

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  Dust, Would Be, Flow

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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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  Prayer, Powerful, Tears

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• Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

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  People, Life And Death, Overcoming

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

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  Needs, Gorillas, Novelty

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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