To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name. Emile M. Cioran names numbers years Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. Emile M. Cioran sin solitude purity Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emile M. Cioran imagination life-is memories Reality is a creation of our excesses. Emile M. Cioran excess creation reality Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. Emile M. Cioran epilepsy geometry life-is True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. Emile M. Cioran ashes tears fire At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning. Emile M. Cioran events moments suffering I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emile M. Cioran telegrams prayer Society: an inferno of saviors! Emile M. Cioran inferno savior Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. Emile M. Cioran melancholy misery sad Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. Emile M. Cioran damage regret pay It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice. Emile M. Cioran quintessence this-society injustice Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emile M. Cioran echoes ennui time Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. Emile M. Cioran concessions conscious A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emile M. Cioran destroyed god civilization I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. Emile M. Cioran civilized prayer men My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are. Emile M. Cioran ignorant knowing suffering Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute. Emile M. Cioran paradise religious profound God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. Emile M. Cioran atheism disease god All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy? Emile M. Cioran flames fire people
