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Emile M. Cioran quotes

Romanian Philosopher April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995

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Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world. Emile M. Cioran
Impartiality is incompatible with the will to affirm oneself or quite simply with the will to exist. To acknowledge another’s merits is an alarming symptom, an act against nature. Emile M. Cioran
Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gull? presence bothered me: I drove them off with stones. And hearing their supernatural shrieks, I realized that that was just what I wanted, that only the Sinister could soothe me, and that it was for such a confrontation that I had got up before dawn. Emile M. Cioran
I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad. Emile M. Cioran
A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you..."
The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God. Emile M. Cioran
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning. Emile M. Cioran
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to..."
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emile M. Cioran
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 naivet 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. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Write books only if you are going to say in them the things..."
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. Emile M. Cioran
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known. Emile M. Cioran
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who..."
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Emile M. Cioran
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. Emile M. Cioran

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