Emil Cioran quotes - page 3

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. (Emil Cioran)
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. View quote
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. View quote
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. View quote
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. View quote
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. View quote
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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. View quote
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. View quote
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. View quote
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. View quote
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The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. (Emil Cioran)
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. View quote
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I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away. View quote
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Consciousness is nature's nightmare. View quote
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think. View quote
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Try to be free: you will die of hunger. View quote
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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. View quote
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How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. View quote
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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be. View quote
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Society: an inferno of saviors! View quote
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. (Emil Cioran)
To act is to anchor in the imminent future. View quote
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I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night. View quote
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Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears. View quote
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We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. View quote
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