The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. 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 regreteasyfeet One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. Emile M. Cioran motiveleft 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 musicgivingthinking To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emile M. Cioran oneselfbelievelying 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 ubiquityfirefall 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 psychologyriskpractice 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 degreesmeanworld Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. Emile M. Cioran victimrevengesweet 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 madlossmen Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. Emile M. Cioran sadismskepticismsoul 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 diessuicideideas One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. Emile M. Cioran languagedoecountry 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 positionwishmind Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser. Emile M. Cioran one-thinglosermatter Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. Emile M. Cioran aversionjealousysecret Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran music-ismusicsoul 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 sensationsself We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. Emile M. Cioran fearlessfear 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 imposterendure I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. Emile M. Cioran defectsseemspeople
