Emil Michel Cioran's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#8872
As soon as I get out of the "I", I fall asleep.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#8873
The cockroach is universal. Even the lice must know him. No way to protect themselves.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8874
Unable to live only in below or beyond life, man is'll shoot two temptations: imbecility and Holiness: subhuman and Superman, never himself.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Visages de la décadence)

#8875
Critics are the pimps of literature.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8876
The best way to get away from others is to invite them to enjoy our defeats. After that, we are sure to hate them for the rest of our days.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8877
' Don't judge anyone before put you in its place. This old saying makes any judgment impossible, because we judge someone because we just can't put in its place.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8878
Renunciation is the only variety of action that is not demeaning.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8879
A nation turns off when it no longer respond to bands; decadence is the death of the trumpet.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8880
The only function of memory is to help us to regret.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8881
I hate this life that I worship.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l’inconvénient d’être né)

#8882
Having committed all the crimes, other than being a father.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8883
When it was not lucky to have alcoholic parents, one is poisoning his life to deal with the heavy inheritance of their virtues.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8884
The idea of God is of use! It is unclear what to replace. Then the man why not everything to keep, to be hold on? Anyway he will find no better.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8885
The man is the cancer of the Earth.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8886
Those we do not like rarely shine in our dreams.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8887
Everything that bothers us allows us to define us. Without disabilities, no self-awareness.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8888
Woe to the unbeliever who deal with his insomnia, has a stock reduced to prayers!

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8889
God is a disease which you feel healed because no one dies and we're surprised, from time to time, to see that she's still there.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8890
Philosophy is an antidote to sadness. And many still believe in the depth of the philosophy.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8891
Anyone who did not die young deserves to die.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8892
Blessed are those who ignore that ripen it is witness to the worsening of its inconsistencies and that's the only progress that it should be allowed to boast.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#8893
Eternity is the greenhouse where God fades since the beginnings, and the man, from time to time, by the thought.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le Crépuscule des pensées)

#8894
The fact that I exist proves that the world has no sense.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8895
Life is possible only by our imagination and our memory impairments.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#8896
After a good quarrel, it feels lighter and more generous than before.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8897
Woe to the book that can be read without thinking all the time about the author!

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#8898
Being free, it's practise to be nothing.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8899
For fear of being any, I ended up being nothing.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8900
God is what survives clearly that nothing deserves to be thought of.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8901
Barbarism is accessible to anyone: it is enough to get a taste.

Emil Michel Cioran
(La Tentation d'exister)

#8902
All is not lost, as long as we're unhappy with itself.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8903
It's not elegant to abuse of bad luck: some individuals, as some peoples is bask there so much, that they are a disgrace to the tragedy.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8904
Try to be free: you will starve to death. The company does not tolerate you if you successively servile and despotic.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#8905
Most never demanded any talent.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8906
Shyness, inexhaustible source of unhappiness in practical life, is the cause directly, or even unique of inner richness.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#8907
A few generations yet, and laughter, reserved for insiders, will be also unworkable than Ecstasy.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8908
The music is an illusion which redeems all others.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8909
A heritage of our own: the hours where we did nothing... This are that shape us, that separate us, make us different.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#8910
Insomnia is the only form of heroism in the bed.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8911
Even more than in the poem, it is in the aphorism that the word is God.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#8912
Life is bearable only because we're not going all the way.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Magazine littéraire)

#8913
The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.

Emil Michel Cioran
(La tentation d'exister)

#8914
Some have misfortunes; others, obsessions. Which are the most to be pitied?

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8915
The only argument against immortality is boredom.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des larmes et des saints)

#8916
As soon as someone tells me of elites, I know that I am in the presence of a fool.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8917
Lucidity: having of sensations in the third person.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le crépuscule des pensées)

#8918
The Romantics were the last suicide specialists. Since then, we look the rush...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8919
The end of the world will appear when the very idea of God is gone. Oblivion in oblivion, human manages to abolish its past and to abolish itself.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8920
Start as a poet and finish in gynecologist! Of all the conditions, the less enviable is that of a lover.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8921
Everything is reduced to the desire and the absence of desire. The rest is shade.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8922
After midnight starts the thrill of the pernicious truths.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8923
Is not humble those who hate each other.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8924
Living in even eternity, is to live from day to day.

Emil Michel Cioran
(La Tentation d'exister)

#8925
I would not lose my reason. But there is so much vulgarity to keep!

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le Crépuscule des pensées)

#8926
All beings are unfortunate; But how many know?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8927
Living means: belief and hope, lie and lie.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#8928
Lucky in love, Adam would have saved us history.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8929
It would be difficult to consider as time lost all these centuries during which the man proceeded to seek a definition of God.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8930
To a nation has, be that the average is good. What we call civilization or just society is nothing else than the excellent quality of the mediocre that make it up.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#8931
To glimpse the essential, should no profession. Stay all day long, and moaning...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8932
Death, what a disgrace! Become suddenly object...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#8933
Love shows how far we can get sick within health: the State of love is not organic, but metaphysical intoxication.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le Crépuscule des pensées)

#8934
All absolute - personal or abstract - is a way to gloss over the problems.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#8935
Failure, always essential, reveals to us, it allows us to see ourselves as God sees us.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8936
Some torment is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. Everywhere they feel diminished, except in hell.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le mauvais Démiurge)

#8937
Two enemies, it is a divided man.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8938
The only utility of funerals, it is to allow us to reconcile us to our enemies.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8939
It seems easier to believe God to believe in God.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8940
Both loneliness fills me that every appointment is a crucifixion.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#8941
I believe in the salvation of mankind, to the future of the cyanide...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8942
The destiny of man is to exhaust the idea of God.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des larmes et des saints)

#8943
Only one thing is important: Learn how to be a loser.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8944
Death is a State of perfection, the only one in the range of a mortal.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#8945
Delirium is undoubtedly more beautiful than doubt, but doubt is more solid.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8946
The real gives me asthma.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8947
All waters are drowning colour.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8948
If the powerless knew how nature was native for them, they would bless the sleep of the glands and vanteraient it to the corners of the streets.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l'amertume)

#8949
God alone has the privilege to leave us. Men can only let go us.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8950
More than time is sleep which is the antidote to grief.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#8951
We lost by being born as much as we lose by dying. Everything.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l’inconvénient d'être né)

#8952
Pity for one who, having exhausted its supply of contempt, no longer knows what feeling feel toward other people and himself.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#8953
The music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8954
When I cry out: Lord! There is the space of my cry. This is enough: what can I wish for?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8955
Contempt is the first victory on the world; the detachment, the last, the supreme.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#8956
Life is the novel of matter.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#8957
Compassion not binding, where its frequency. No one ever died down here from the suffering of others.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Sur les cimes du désespoir)

#8958
Old age, ultimately, is that the punishment of having lived.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8959
Friendship is an inapparent drama, a result of subtle injuries.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8960
Any idea fruitful runs in pseudo-idee, degenerates into belief. It is not just a sterile idea that retains its status as an idea.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le mauvais Démiurge)

#8961
It can be normal and alive at the same time.

Emil Michel Cioran
(La tentation d'exister)

#8962
The music, system of farewells, evokes a physics which the starting point is not atoms, but tears.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8963
Fear failure, is dreading the ridicule, there is nothing more petty. Go ahead - it was not fear of becoming the laughing stock of his fellows.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8964
Friendship is an inexhaustible source of discontent and rage which it would be unreasonable to want to happen.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8965
The sources of a writer are his shames; one who did not discover in itself, or is there steals, is dedicated to plagiarism or criticism.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8966
It makes sense that God was a solution, and we'll never find one as good.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8967
Melancholy is the State of dream of selfishness.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#8968
Get a sense what it is is less does a naïve to a masochist.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8969
Pessimism, this cruelty of the vanquished who cannot forgive the life of having deceived their expectations.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8970
Invective, the ultimatum of impotence.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8971
This morning, after having heard an astronomer of billions of Suns, I gave to my toilet: what good to wash again?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8972
We sometimes want to be cannibalistic, less for the pleasure of devouring so-and-so for him throw up.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8973
Really understands religion, than this one which, if it listened to his deepest instincts, would grow a "help" so hard, so devastating, that no God would never survive.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8974
But know we God, otherwise it is a despair that begins where end all others.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des larmes et des saints)

#8975
A homeland is a soporific to every moment.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8976
That a reality behind appearances, this is, after all, possible; that the language can make it, it would be ridiculous to expect.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8977
We need to stand on the side of the oppressed in all circumstances, even when they are wrong, yet bearing in mind that they are full of the same mud as their oppressors.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#8978
I don't think I missed one chance to be sad.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des larmes et des saints)

#8979
Bored it is chewing time.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8980
The obsession of the addition is the inability of the moment; and this inability is the nostalgia even.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8981
Religion is a tiring solution of laziness.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8982
What does a single crucifixion, from one daily, what endures the Insomniac?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8983
Complete lucidity, it's nothing.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Magazine littéraire)

#8984
Any man who has a conviction, whatever it is, has a God; as I say, he believes in God. Because any belief postulates the absolute or supplement there.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8985
Of all the slander, the worst is that our laziness, contesting the authenticity.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8986
Mystery. A word that we use to deceive others, to make them believe that we are deeper than them.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8987
If love was not insoluble mixture of infinite delicacy and premeditated crime, as it would be easy to reduce it to a Word! But the suffering of love beyond the tragedies of Job... Eroticism is an ethereal leprosy...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le Crépuscule des pensées)

#8988
By allowing the man, nature has made a lot more than a calculation error: an attack on itself.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8989
What distinguishes us from our predecessors, it's our recklessness with respect to the mystery. We have even name him; Thus was born the absurd.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l'amertume)

#8990
For insomnia, I tell myself, as a consolation, that these hours of which I become aware, I bash them to nothingness, and that if I slept them, they would never mine, they would never have existed.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8991
The french became a provincial language. The natives thrive. The wog, alone, is inconsolable. He alone takes the mourning of the shade.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'aveu d'être né)

#8992
All the doctrines of action and fight, with their unit and their patterns, were invented to make men good conscience, allowing them to hate themselves... nobly, without embarrassment or remorse.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8993
All persecutes our ideas, starting with our brain.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8994
Who does not see death in pink is affected by color blindness of heart.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8995
The real confession is that we indirectly, speaking of others.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#8996
The English are a people of pirates who, after having plundered the world, began to get bored.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des larmes et des saints)

#8997
As you get older you learn to barter its terrors against his sneers.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#8998
Life happens in Delirium and breaks in boredom.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#8999
The fight that engage in every individual the fanatic and the imposter is cause we know never to go.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9000
My mission is to kill the time and hers to kill me in turn. We're quite comfortable between assassins.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9001
Laziness is a skepticism of the flesh.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le Crépuscule des pensées)

#9002
No one can watch over his solitude, if he knows getting obnoxious.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9003
It's only a cracked spirit to have openings on the afterlife.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9004
Deeply think only those who do not have the misfortune to be afflicted with the sense of the ridiculous.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9005
The passion for music is in itself an admission. We long know about a stranger who engage that on someone who is insensitive, and we approach every day.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9006
The secret of my adaptation to life? -I changed to desperation as shirt.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9007
Two paths open to the man and the woman: the ferocity or indifference. All indications are that they will take the second path, that it would be between them neither explanation nor break, but they will continue to move away from the other.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9008
All thought is feeling upset.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9009
Why to withdraw us and give up, when we have so many people to disappoint?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9010
Being modern, it's odd in the incurable.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9011
All without God is nil; and God is the supreme nothing.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des Larmes et des saints)

#9012
A book is a deferred suicide.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9013
Is deep, is true as what is hidden. Where strength baser feelings.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9014
The last resort of those whom fate has struck is the idea of fate.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9015
Miss her life, access to poetry - without the support of the talent.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9016
In the career of a mind that has wound up bias after bias, comes a moment where it is all too easy to become a saint than a crook in any kind.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9017
The cynicism of the extreme solitude is an ordeal that mitigates the insolence.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9018
The aphorism? A fire without flame. We understand that no one wants to warm up.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9019
Holiness makes me shudder, that interference in the misfortunes of others, this barbarism of charity, that pity unscrupulous...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9020
A book which after all demolished, not demolished to itself, we will be exasperated in vain.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9021
The lie is a form of talent, while respect for the truth, goes hand in hand with the rudeness and the heaviness.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9022
Religions, as ideologies who have inherited the vices, are reduced to crusades against humor.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9023
The good playwright must have the sense of the assassination; Since the Elizabethan, who knows even kill his characters?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9024
If he wants to preserve a any spiritual dignity, human must neglect its contemporary status.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9025
The idea of progress dishonors the intellect.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9026
The sperm is the bandit in the pure State.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9027
If it is not comforting, it is in any case flattering to think that we'll die without having given its own.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9028
You stop being young at the time where one chooses more enemies, where you just what we have on hand.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9029
Vitality of love: we cannot talk without injustice to a feeling that has survived the romanticism and the bidet.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9030
Sadness: an appetite that no misfortune does satisfy.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9031
The historian meddling to judge the past made journalism in another century.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9032
Any comment of a work is bad or useless, because everything is not discreet sucks.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9033
Beware of those who turn their backs on love, ambition, to society. They take revenge for is giving up.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9034
There are of the charlatan in anyone who triumph in any area whatsoever.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9035
The man accepts the death, but not the time of his death. Die at any time, except when he must die.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9036
A boring man is a man unable to get bored.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le crépuscule des pensées)

#9037
SERF, it people, built cathedrals; emancipated, he built only the horrors.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9038
The french: idiom ideal for delicately translate equivocal feelings.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9039
If far extends the death, so she takes place, that I don't know where to die.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9040
What is a sage? A senile lucifer.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9041
All grudges come that remained below ourselves, we could join us. We him never forgive others.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9042
Prolix in essence, literature lives the plethora of terms, the word cancer.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9043
Yet the function of the eyes is not to see but to cry; and to really see we need to close them.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#9044
We shouldn't disturb our friends for our funeral. And again!

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9045
The degree of inhumanity of a religion guarantees the strength and duration: a liberal religion is a mockery or a miracle.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9046
What is annoying in public misfortunes, is that anyone feels competent enough to talk about.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9047
The Creation was the first act of sabotage.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9048
It is of stimulants (coffee, tobacco) that I wrote all my books. What is the activity of the mind!

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9049
The truth? A pet project of adolescent, or a symptom of senility.

Emil Michel Cioran
(La Tentation d'exister)

#9050
I would give all the scenery of the world of my childhood.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Histoire et utopie)

#9051
Hope is a virtue of slaves.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#9052
This isn't fear to undertake, is the fear of succeeding, which explains more than a failure.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9053
It is incredible that the prospect of having a biographer did not give nobody to have a life.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9054
Loneliness does not learn to be alone, but the only one.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le crépuscule des pensées)

#9055
My doubts, I have acquired painfully; my disappointments, as if they were waiting for me has always came of them even.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9056
We always die and yet death has not lost anything of its freshness.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9057
All despair is an ultimatum to God.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le crépuscule des pensées)

#9058
Since we don't remember the humiliations and defeats, what therefore will have served the rest?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9059
In the crucial events, the cigarette is aid more effective than the Gospels.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l'amertume)

#9060
These children which I would not, if they knew the happiness that they owe me!

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9061
Abrupt silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings back us to the basics: he reveals to us what price we have to pay the invention of the word.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9062
Between a slap and an indelicacy, we still support better the slap.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9063
The pallor shows how far the body can understand the soul.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le Crépuscule des pensées)

#9064
Poetry has, like life, the excuse to do nothing to prove.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#9065
Progress is the injustice that each generation is committing to the one that preceded it.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9066
All thinkers are losers of the action and who take revenge for their failure through the concepts.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#9067
Give a purpose to life: it instantly loses its appeal.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#9068
Opportunists have saved peoples; the heroes have ruined them.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#9069
A monk and a butcher brawling inside every desire.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9070
Skepticism is the elegance of the anxiety.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9071
When we know that any problem is a false problem, we're dangerously close to salvation.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9072
It is not worth to kill because we kill is always too late.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9073
On a spiritual level, all pain is a chance; on a spiritual level only.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9074
The ideal being? An Angel devastated by humor.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9075
It is not that a sign attesting that we have understood everything: cry without topic.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9076
A civilization begins with the myth and ends with doubt.

Emil Michel Cioran
(La Chute dans le temps)

#9077
I know at sixty, I knew it as well to twenty. Forty years of a long, of a superfluous audit work...

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l’inconvénient d’être né)

#9078
It is easily the sorrows, AC if the reason or the liver not there succumbed.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9079
Loneliness is the aphrodisiac of the spirit, as the conversation intelligence.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le crépuscule des pensées)

#9080
It is inelegant to complain about life while we can make an hour of solitude per day.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9081
Work: a curse that the man turned into pleasure.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Sur les cimes du désespoir)

#9082
The art of love? It's about the temperament of a vampire to join the discretion of an anemone.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9083
Paris, furthest point of heaven, is nonetheless the only place to despair.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’Amertume)

#9084
This need for remorse above evil, that I say! who creates...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9085
God has exploited all our inferiority complex, starting with our inability to believe in our own divinity.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des larmes et des saints)

#9086
A believer who has lost the faith, grace, could rightly accuse God of betrayal.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahier 1957-1972)

#9087
Explain anything by God is giving in to an easy way. God does not explain anything, that is his strength.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9088
There is only a remedy for despair: it is the prayer - prayer that can do everything, which can even create God...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9089
It is obvious that God was a solution, and we'll never find another who is also satisfactory.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9090
Life inspires more dread than death: it is she who is the great unknown.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Précis de décomposition)

#9091
The dishonesty of a thinker recognizes the amount of specific ideas it advances.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9092
It's a pity that to go to God, we should go through the faith.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9093
We're and remains slave as long as one is not cured of the craze for hope.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9094
Newspaper: the need to capture all the bitter reflections by the strange fear we'd one day no longer be sad...

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le crépuscule des pensées)

#9095
At the zoo. All of these animals have a decent outfit, except monkeys. We feel that human is not far away.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9096
I feel like I'm free, but I know that I'm not.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9097
Beware of thinkers whose mind works from a quote.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9098
Everyone knows that the weapons of deterrence are effective only if it is not used.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des larmes et des saints)

#9099
And with what amount of illusions have I been born to lose one each day!

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9100
This isn't because we have something to say, but because we want to say something.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9101
In a world without melancholy, the nightingales would belch.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9102
The free man does nothing, even not bother of honor.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9103
A self-respecting man has no homeland. A home is the glue.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Ecartèlement)

#9104
What good attend Plato, when a saxophone as well we can glimpse another world?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9105
We don't live in a country, we live a language. A homeland, this is it and nothing else.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9106
Opinions, Yes; convictions, no. This is the starting point of intellectual pride.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Aveux et anathèmes)

#9107
We can't explain a paradox nor a sneeze. Is besides, the paradox not a sneeze of the spirit?

Emil Michel Cioran
(Le crépuscule des pensées)

#9108
Objections against science: this world does not deserve to be known.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9109
Has any convictions that one who has nothing further.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l’inconvénient d’être né)

#9110
Hope is to deny the future.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9111
We are all of the pranksters: we survive our problems.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9112
You can taste the flavor of the day if it shirks from the requirement to have a destiny.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9113
Those who lived through the pride of loneliness has more than a rival: God.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Des Larmes et des saints)

#9114
The thinkers of first-hand meditating on things; others, on problems.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9115
We shouldn't write books to say things that wouldn't talk to anyone.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9116
More men are moving away from God, more they advance in the knowledge of religions.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9117
If one could see with the eyes of others, it would disappear immediately.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9118
Consciousness is more than the splinter, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9119
The endless is the specialty of the undecided.

Emil Michel Cioran
(De l'inconvénient d'être né)

#9120
For two thousand years, Jesus takes revenge on us to be not dead on a couch.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Syllogismes de l’amertume)

#9121
What is not ripping is superfluous, in music at least.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

#9122
If the dog is the most despised animals, it's that the man knows too well to be able to enjoy a companion who is so loyal to him.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#9123
Cowardice makes subtle.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cahiers 1957-1972)

#37510
Gare du Nord. A clock indicates the minutes: 4:43 p.m. - That minute I thought she would never return, that she had disappeared forever, that she had sunk into the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. That the theory of eternal return seems futile and unfounded to me. Everything disappears forever. I'll never see this moment again. Everything is unique and unimportant.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Cioran's notebooks)

#37511
No one hits themselves as hard as I do, and about everything. Because anything is an excuse to torment. And I can't help it.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Books 1957-1972)

#37683
The prayer of the sad man never has the strength to ascend to God. As one prays only in the abatement, one will deduce that no prayer has ever reached its destination.

Emil Michel Cioran
(Source inconnue)

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