Emil Cioran Quotes

Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Born: Apr 8, 1911
Died: Jun 20, 1995
Life Man Nothing Our Ourselves You
Related authors: Albert Camus Aristotle Confucius Friedrich Nietzsche Lao Tzu Plato Socrates Sun Tzu
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Emil Cioran
Paradise Torture Insomnia Itself Place Convert
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. Emil Cioran
Tyrant Mental Stuff Order Certain Necessary
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. Emil Cioran
Life You Man Hatred Chemistry Living Preserves Hating Mystery Dead Done Stop Loving Resides
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. Emil Cioran
Others Ourselves Would Vanish See Could Spot Us
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Emil Cioran
Proving Than Preferable Means
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emil Cioran
Destroyed Only Civilization Gods
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emil Cioran
Life Memory Imagination Deficiencies Our Possible Only
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emil Cioran
Day Nothing Telegram Shall Read Prayers Foresee
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. Emil Cioran
Silence Conversation Invention Pay Back Must Reveals How Dearly Essentials Middle Us Sudden Suddenly Brings Speech
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. Emil Cioran
Prison Lost Worse Someone Greatest Befall Tragedy Than Sitting Much Sleep
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Emil Cioran
Life Decision Futility Must Since Most Exist Irrational Then
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emil Cioran
Criticism Others Ourselves Must Misconception Read Understand
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. Emil Cioran
Moving On Better Giving Name Surrounds Endure Moving Us
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. Emil Cioran
Hope Meeting Worse Ourselves Would Someday Someone Off Than Did Human Human Beings Interested Beings
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. Emil Cioran
Nothingness Release Catastrophic Disaster Most Without Capital Phenomenon
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. Emil Cioran
Result Mind Itself Flesh
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. Emil Cioran
You Yourself Too Late Worth Too Late Bother Since Always
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emil Cioran
Happiness Music Souls Refuge
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Emil Cioran
Philosophers Write Writers Professors Thinkers
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. Emil Cioran
World Nothing Evidence
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. Emil Cioran
Conflict Police Calling End Begin Truths Them
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. Emil Cioran
Intelligence Only Ages Belief Flourishes
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emil Cioran
Hope Lie Live Believe Oneself
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. Emil Cioran
We Cannot Ourselves Delight Delivered Cannot
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Emil Cioran
Future Time Man Matter Half Does Infatuated Eternity Who
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. Emil Cioran
People Obsessions Ideas Represents Much Aggregate Theories
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