A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life. Emile M. Cioran regret easy feet One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. Emile M. Cioran motive left Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers. Emile M. Cioran music giving thinking To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emile M. Cioran oneself believe lying Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. Emile M. Cioran ubiquity fire fall Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. Emile M. Cioran psychology risk practice To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life. Emile M. Cioran degrees mean world Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. Emile M. Cioran victim revenge sweet We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone. Emile M. Cioran mad loss men Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. Emile M. Cioran sadism skepticism soul 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. Emile M. Cioran dies suicide ideas One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. Emile M. Cioran language doe country Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often. Emile M. Cioran position wish mind Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser. Emile M. Cioran one-thing loser matter Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. Emile M. Cioran aversion jealousy secret Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran music-is music soul Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations? Emile M. Cioran sensations self We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. Emile M. Cioran fearless fear It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false Emile M. Cioran imposter endure I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. Emile M. Cioran defects seems people
