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Everything Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
- Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.
- 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…
- If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
- For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
- We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
- I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
- Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is…
- This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do…
- Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
- Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
- I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for…
- I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to…
- Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no…
- I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better…
- We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!
- To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
- History proves nothing because it contains everything.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable.… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood