Emil Cioran quotes - page 9

All that is Life in me urges me to give up God. (Emil Cioran)
Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser. View quote
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering. View quote
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The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness. View quote
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The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness. View quote
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One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping. View quote
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Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend. View quote
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Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations? View quote
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Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it. View quote
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A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy. View quote
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What am I, other than a chance in the infinite probabilities of not having been! (Emil Cioran)
Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women. View quote
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At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm. View quote
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I admire only two types of people: the potentially mad and the potential suicide. View quote
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There are questions which, once approached, either isolate you or kill you outright. View quote
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Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart. View quote
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If there was a God of sorrow, he would grow black heavy wings, to soar not for the skies, but for inferno. View quote
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We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication. View quote
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I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction. View quote
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Compared to the refined culture of sclerotic forms and frames, which mask everything, the lyrical mode is utterly barbarian in its expression. Its value resides precisely in its savage quality: it is only blood, sincerity, and fire. View quote
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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. (Emil Cioran)
Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time. View quote
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Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them. View quote
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Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination. View quote
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There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such. View quote
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