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Emile M. Cioran was a Romanian-born French philosopher known for his pessimistic and existentialist views. His works deeply explored the essence of human existence, suffering, and nihilism.

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“No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief”

Humans Belief Human Beings Dangerous Martyr Martyrdom Martyred

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”

Ifs Humans Asks Existence Dying Loneliness Lonely Symbols Human Existence So Lonely

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?”

Humans Happens Hate Human Beings Space Cities Break Chaos Everyday Size Confined Riot Break Out Unspeakable Massacres Coexist Doomsday Carnage

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Meetings Someday Meeting Someone

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.”

Humans Suffering Belief Human Beings Dangerous Appetite Martyr Martyrdom Martyred

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.”

Humans Doe Voice Solitude Surface Infinity Remorse Whispering

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.”

Humans Fall Fire Come Up Revolt Perplexity Ubiquity

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”

Humans Drama Vegetables Envied

Book:The fall into time

Source: The fall into time

“Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.”

Humans May Universe Language Prayer Powerful Hell Tears Appropriate Accents Savages Risen Auras Nectar Hungarians Cyanide

Author:Emile M. Cioran

About the Author

Born: April 8, 1911
Died: June 20, 1995
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 372

Books & Sources

The Trouble with Being BornRelated source material

A short history of decayRelated source material

All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and ApothegmsRelated source material

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