Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
Emile M. Cioran quotes about
life-and-death people overcoming
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
intuition firsts true-ones
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
soul sadism skepticism
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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.
fire tears world
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
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.