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Time Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
- Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
- No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life…
- What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me…
- Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something…
- The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes…
- It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not…
- Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
- 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…
- If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is…
- 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…
- Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
- Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
- When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like.…
- For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal…
- There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
- There was a time when time did not yet exist.
- I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
- What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
- 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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