Emil Cioran Quotes

Emil Cioran

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : April 8, 1911

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

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

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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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The Universal view melts things into a blur.

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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

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Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

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The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

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