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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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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes

“All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?”

People Feels Fire Harmony Storm Landscape Flames Melancholy Lightning Inner Beauty Explosions

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Normal people have nothing to forget.”

People Forget Normal

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“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.”

People Life Is Dies Overcoming Life And Death Fear Of Death Detachment Negation

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.”

People Want Suicide Calm Calm Down Killing Yourself

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”

People Ideas Theory Obsession

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.”

People Thinking Believe Everyday Believe In God

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”

People Seems Defects

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.”

People Thinking Doe Seems Asks Strange Consent Acquaintance New Acquaintances

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.”

People Ifs Doe Facts Objects Instinct Intolerance Aggression Diminish Inclination Ferocity

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!”

People Believe Stills Philosophy Sadness Profundity

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

The fall into timeRelated source material

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