Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
Emile M. Cioran quotes about
being-yourself chaos chaos-in-the-world
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
rejection violence accepting
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
aliens indifference claims
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
disease reincarnation born
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
disease rage provoked
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
tyrants ideas atheism
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
spots ifs
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
madness appeals difficult
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
inferno savior
Society: an inferno of saviors!
epilepsy life-is geometry
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
delirium-tremens delirium undone
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
conviction ifs
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
have-faith matter way
No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
source source-of-life subjective
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.