Emil Cioran quotes - page 4

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. (Emil Cioran)
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. View quote
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Tears do not burn except in solitude. View quote
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Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. View quote
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The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity... Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. View quote
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If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing. View quote
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. View quote
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Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy! View quote
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Reality is a creation of our excesses. View quote
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Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. View quote
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Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. (Emil Cioran)
I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday. View quote
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. View quote
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Sadness makes you God's prisoner. View quote
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History proves nothing because it contains everything. View quote
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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. View quote
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A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life. View quote
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True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. View quote
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I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony. View quote
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The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. View quote
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If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. (Emil Cioran)
There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition. View quote
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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? View quote
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? View quote
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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. View quote
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