What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle. Emile M. Cioran hell miracle moments Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. Emile M. Cioran sensations frustration The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. Emile M. Cioran sage wise men Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. Emile M. Cioran martyr cutting havens One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language. Emile M. Cioran language country What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry? Emile M. Cioran fifty writing book Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. Emile M. Cioran evil-people men order We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything! Emile M. Cioran born dying lost For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm. Emile M. Cioran erosion pride spiritual The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny. Emile M. Cioran destiny mirrors thinking To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy. Emile M. Cioran waiting morning giving I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time. Emile M. Cioran tough want time Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude. Emile M. Cioran real fear inspirational In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. Emile M. Cioran insomnia sleep time What is pity but the vice of kindness. Emile M. Cioran pity vices kindness No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. Emile M. Cioran appetite belief suffering When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever. Emile M. Cioran miserable forever needs What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Emile M. Cioran doe time men If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. Emile M. Cioran parent overcoming beer All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. Emile M. Cioran unique feet philosophy
