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Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void."

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life."

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity."

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living."

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away."

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!"

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




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect."

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves."

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

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



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Everything is pathology, except for indifference."

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "There was a time when time did not yet exist."

There was a time when time did not yet exist.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out."

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "We are all geniuses when we dream."

We are all geniuses when we dream.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?"

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser."

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"

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



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification."

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up."

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation."

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."

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



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night."

I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?"

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse."

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived."

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."

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



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world."

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture."

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears."

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often."

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity."

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.