Emil Cioran quotes - page 10

The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame. (Emil Cioran)
As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it. View quote
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To fear is to die every minute. View quote
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No one has the audacity to exclaim: "I don't want to do anything!" - we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions. View quote
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Nothing surpasses the pleasures of idleness: even if the end of the world were to come, I would not leave my bed at an ungodly hour. View quote
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Thought is as much a lie as love or faith. View quote
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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief. View quote
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His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse. View quote
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Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe? View quote
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Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities. View quote
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The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them. (Emil Cioran)
The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise. View quote
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To hope is to contradict the future. View quote
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Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be . . . optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die? View quote
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If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse. View quote
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. View quote
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Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? View quote
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. View quote
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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. View quote
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When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down. View quote
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To have committed every crime but that of being a father. (Emil Cioran)
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification. View quote
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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. View quote
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To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! View quote
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I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. View quote
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