Emil Cioran quotes - page 17

All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one. (Emil Cioran)
There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books. View quote
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Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain. View quote
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Irons and the unbreathable air of this world strip us of everything, except the freedom to kill ourselves; and this freedom grants us a strength and pride to triumph over the loads which overwhelm us. View quote
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The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist. View quote
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"What is truth?" is a fundamental question. But what is it compared to "How to endure life?" And even this one pales beside the next: "How to endure oneself?" - That is the crucial question in which no one is in a position to give us an answer. View quote
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For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa. View quote
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Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral... View quote
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Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done. View quote
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What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again. View quote
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The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy. (Emil Cioran)
God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought. View quote
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When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation. View quote
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Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease. View quote
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Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember. View quote
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To have grazed every form of failure, including success. View quote
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Only the idiot is equipped to breathe. View quote
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Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred. View quote
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Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth. View quote
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It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say? View quote
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Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived. (Emil Cioran)
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known. View quote
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Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself. View quote
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Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike. View quote
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Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none. View quote
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