Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
Emile M. Cioran quotes about
intuition firsts true-ones
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
being-yourself chaos chaos-in-the-world
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
motive left
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
rejection violence accepting
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
cynical democracy mediocrity
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
devil acrimony insolence
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
ego trying deeper
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
alive normal
We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
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.
other-worlds nihilism patents
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
jealousy secret aversion
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
dream sleep genius
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
disease rage provoked
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.