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Moments Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
- Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but…
- We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
- Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
- We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
- 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…
- A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
- Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a…
- The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos…
- The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed…
- At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else,…
- In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
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- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
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- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba