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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes
“One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.”
“By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?”
“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.”
“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
“The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.”
“Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.”
“To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.”
“Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.”
“As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.”
“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.”
“Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.”
“A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.”
“Everything is pathology, except for indifference.”
“We change ideas like neckties.”
“My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.”
“Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.”
“I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.”
“Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.”
“Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.”
“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”
“To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell”
“A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.”