Emil M. Cioran: Trending quotes
Emil M. Cioran trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“To Live signifies to believe and hope — to lie and to lie to oneself.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”
Source: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 178, first American edition (1970)
“There is always someone above you: beyond God Himself rises Nothingness.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“Reality is a creation of our excesses.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“How many disappointments are conducive to bitterness? One or a thousand, depending on the subject.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“To live in a saint's heart? I'm afraid of setting the sky ablaze.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
“There is no false sensation.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth...”
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)