An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think. Emile M. Cioran philosophybelievethinking We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. Emile M. Cioran voiddespairgiving Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. Emile M. Cioran vitalityfightingdepression Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again. Emile M. Cioran doing-nothingencounterssolitude Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. Emile M. Cioran spiritualitytaughtideas Under each formula lies a corpse. Emile M. Cioran corpsesformulaslying Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. Emile M. Cioran appetitepowersuffering The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. Emile M. Cioran pessimisticpainlimits A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. Emile M. Cioran designcausesbook Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. Emile M. Cioran appetitemenneeds Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. Emile M. Cioran woepoisonsynthesis Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. Emile M. Cioran functionmindinspirational Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. Emile M. Cioran melancholyuniverse Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emile M. Cioran misconceptioncriticscriticism 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. Emile M. Cioran psychoticdifferencesthinking The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief. Emile M. Cioran destinyfightinghero He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. Emile M. Cioran humansvegetablesdrama Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! Emile M. Cioran painsweetdeath That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. Emile M. Cioran willinggoal The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. Emile M. Cioran grudgemenideas
