Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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• Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Wish, Vomiting, Sometimes

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

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• We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

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  Born, Existence, Knows

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pride, Revelations

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prove

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

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• It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

  Emile M. Cioran

  Endure, Imposter

  "A short history of decay".

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• If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spots, Ifs

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

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• Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

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  Punishment, Age, Old Age

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Demand, Hell, Protest

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

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• Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Differences, Psychotic

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• I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

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  Work, Trying, Granted

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

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• Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

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  Futility Of Life, Decision, Life Is

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• Society: an inferno of saviors!

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  Inferno, Savior

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

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

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  World, Evidence

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, 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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• 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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• We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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  Interest, Spread, Misfortunes

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• Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cynical, Democracy, Mediocrity

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Being Yourself, Chaos, Chaos In The World

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

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• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

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  Self, Civilization, Advice

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• There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Boredom, One Thing

  "Reality Hunger: A Manifesto" by David Shields, www.believermag.com. March 2006.

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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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• Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Matter, Loser, One Thing

  "The Trouble With Being Born". Book by Emil Cioran, 1973.

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• We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

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  Meeting Someone, Someday, Meetings

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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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• 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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