Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
music soul music-is
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
accomplish-nothing accomplish strain
To accomplish nothing and die of the strain
grief grieving use
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
secret teach disguise
Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
suffering flow facts
Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.
borders kind misanthropy
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
desire holes eros
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
time men doe
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
answers earth looks
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
sleep animal insomnia
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
time want tough
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
time
There was a time when time did not yet exist.
wish vomiting sometimes
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
time rejection nostalgia
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.