Emil Cioran Quotes
Emil Cioran Quotes
A book is a suicide postponed.
1006 Word - That invisible dagger.
1234 The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live -moreover, the only one.
4657 Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
2026 To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.
4505 Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
3885 Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
3789 I try-without success-to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.
3491 As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
4574 Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta.
Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui nu i-ar putea creste decât aripi negre si grele, pentru a zbura nu înspre ceruri, ci în infern.
3478 Femeia-i Paradisul ca noapte.
2162 Cunoașterea este o plagă pentru viață, iar conștiința o rană deschisă în sâmburele vieții.
4371 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.
3607 Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
4371 Usted puede ser tan pesimista, o en su defecto tan existencialista como quiera. Sin embargo también se ha enamorado. Cómo cualquier idiota.
4477 The Real gives me asthma.
1511 The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.
2714 The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
3094 Né avec une âme habituelle, j'en ai demandé une autre à la musique : ce fut le début de malheurs inespérés.
1273 În afară de materie,totul este muzică:însuşi Dumnezeu nu e decât o halucinaţie sonoră
4918 În afară de muzică şi poezie,totul e minciună sau vulgaritate.
1178 Nu poţi cunoaşte un om decât după nivelul la care s-a ridicat muzica în sufletul lui.
3055 For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.
4178 Верный способ не сойти с ума в иных обстоятельствах: вспомнить о нереальности всего ок%D
4179 I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
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