Emil Cioran quotes - page 22

A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after an autopsy, is less than a corpse. (Emil Cioran)
Except for music, everything is a lie, even solitude, even ecstasy. Music, in fact, is the one and the other, only better. View quote
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What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed! View quote
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The surest means of not losing your mind on the spot: remembering that everything is unreal, and will remain so... View quote
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When you get over an infatuation, to fall for someone ever again seems so inconceivable that you imagine no one, not even a bug, that is not mired in disappointment. View quote
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I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me. View quote
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It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette. View quote
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How many disappointments are conducive to bitterness? One or a thousand, depending on the subject. View quote
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If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it! View quote
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To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang. View quote
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There is always someone above you: beyond God Himself rises Nothingness. (Emil Cioran)
What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession! View quote
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To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncertain health. View quote
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To be or not to be...Neither one nor the other. View quote
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One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation. View quote
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Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for an intellectual pride. View quote
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What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear. View quote
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Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest? View quote
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The need to devour oneself absolves one of the need to believe. View quote
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Dead of night. No one, nothing but the society of the moments. Each pretends to keep us company, then escapes - desertion after desertion. View quote
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One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well. (Emil Cioran)
Never unreal, Pain is a challenge to the universal fiction. What luck to be the only sensation granted a content, if not a meaning! View quote
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When we have no further desire to show ourselves, we take refuge in music, the Providence of the abulic. View quote
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In order to deceive melancholy, you must keep moving. Once you stop, it wakens, if in fact it has ever dozed off. View quote
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To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived! View quote
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