Emil Cioran

“sudbina - rech tako draga pobedjenima”

— Emil Cioran

“A fi sau a nu fi? Nici una nici alta.”

— Emil Cioran

“God does not read.”

— Emil Cioran

“Personal imi dau demisia din omenire.”

— Emil Cioran

“No one reads to know, but to forget”

— Emil Cioran

“The Real gives me asthma.”

— Emil Cioran

“Muzica este o arheologie a memoriei.”

— Emil Cioran

“Viata se creeaza in delir si se desface in plictis.”

— Emil Cioran

“... numai in indoiala sunt profetii si fanaticii cu adevarat umani.”

— Emil Cioran

“What misery a sensation is! Ecstasy itself, perhaps, is nothing more.”

— Emil Cioran

“We are all deep in a hell, each of which is a miracle.”

— Emil Cioran

“Prostia este o suferinta nedureroasa a inteligentei.”

— Emil Cioran

“Fericirea noastră, a modernilor, este că ne-am descoperit infernul în suflet.”

— Emil Cioran

“In mine sunt numai aburi si scantei, inundatii de foc si incendii de apa.”

— Emil Cioran

“„Mi s-a facut inima ca ceara si se topeste înlauntrul meu.“ (Psalm XXII)”

— Emil Cioran

“That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would…

— Emil Cioran

“Am avut în toată viaţa mea o pretenţie extraordinară, de a fi omul cel mai lucid pe care l-am cunoscut.”

— Emil Cioran

“Aduni,cuceresti,castigi si lupti pentru a fugi de tine,pentru a-ti invinge intristarea de a nu exista,in mod real,decat tu insuti.”

— Emil Cioran

“Orice ins care a trecut printr-o încercare îi priveşte de sus pe cei cărora nu le-a fost dat s-o îndure. Insuportabila infatuare…

— Emil Cioran

“Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.”

— Emil Cioran

“Singurătatea-i o exasperare ontologică a fiinţei noastre. Eşti mai mult decât trebuie. Iar lumea-i mai puţin decât ar trebui.”

— Emil Cioran

“Entuziasmul depaseste acest principiu realizand viata fara dramatism exprimand un elan fara tragism si iubind fara sexualitate.”

— Emil Cioran

“Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense…

— Emil Cioran

“Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each…

— Emil Cioran

“If we could sleep twenty-four hours a day, we would soon return to the primordial slime, the beatitude of that perfect torpor…

— Emil Cioran

“umiremo srazmerno broju rechi koje razbacujemo svuda oko sebe.oni koji govore nemaju tajni. a svi govorimo. izdajemo se, krchmimo dushu; svako se,…

— Emil Cioran

“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened. …" No sooner are they…

— Emil Cioran

“Impartiality is incompatible with the will to affirm oneself or quite simply with the will to exist. To acknowledge another’s merits is…

— Emil Cioran

“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed…

— Emil Cioran

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a…

— Emil Cioran

“The more power man acquires, the more vulnerable he becomes. What he must fear most is the moment when, creation entirely fleeced,…

— Emil Cioran

“Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences…

— Emil Cioran

“For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion…

— Emil Cioran

“Meditate but one hour upon the self’s nonexistence and you will feel yourself to be another man,” said a priest of the…

— Emil Cioran

“Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths,…

— Emil Cioran

“Lirismul absolut As vrea sa izbucnesc intr-o explozie radicala cu tot ce am in mine cu toata energia si cu toate continuturile…

— Emil Cioran

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the…

— Emil Cioran

“Animal banished from life, man's condition is tragic, for he no longer finds fulfillment in life's simple values. For animals, life is…

— Emil Cioran

“There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of…

— Emil Cioran

Injustice constitutes the essence of social life.

— Emil Cioran