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Live Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
- The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
- The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
- 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…
- One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
- One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
- To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself…
- To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the…
- To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
- To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of…
- To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
- Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who…
- To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak…
- Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to…
- If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living.…
More Live Quotes
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong