Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. Emile M. Cioran venture envy sacrifice We change ideas like neckties. Emile M. Cioran neckties change ideas 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 tangible anchors feels The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. Emile M. Cioran solitary tasks men The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. Emile M. Cioran results flesh mind There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Emile M. Cioran existence prove mean Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home? Emile M. Cioran exile existence home No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. Emile M. Cioran understood position alive We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. Emile M. Cioran conviction ifs The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. Emile M. Cioran limits leader spiritual This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant. Emile M. Cioran unique suffering forever We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. Emile M. Cioran incomplete Tears do not burn except in solitude. Emile M. Cioran solitude tears The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran solitude light principles There is no limit to suffering. Emile M. Cioran limits suffering Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. Emile M. Cioran deserve-more demand temptation We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. Emile M. Cioran misfortunes spread interest What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist. Emile M. Cioran doe people thinking Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. Emile M. Cioran imperfection littles giving To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within. Emile M. Cioran pardon vengeance hatred
