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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes
“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”
“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”
“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”
“What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.”
“There was a time when time did not yet exist.”
“I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.”
“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”
“Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.”
“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”
“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.”
“What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”
“What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!”
“Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.”
“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.”
“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.”
“Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
“Our first intuitions are the true ones.”
“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.”
“Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.”
“Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”
“A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.”
“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.”
“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.”
“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”