“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”
Source: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
“Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!”
September 10, 1936
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Will I get nights of ecstasy?"
"And days. Ecstasy all the time.”
Source: Magic Breaks
“My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.”
"The Transition of Juan Romero" - Written 16 Sep 1919; first published in Marginalia (1944)<!-- Arkham House p. 276-84 -->
Fiction
Context: My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dream; but sometimes in the autumn, about two in the morning when winds and animals howl dismally, there comes from inconceivable depths below a damnable suggestions of rhythmical throbbing … and I feel that the transition of Juan Romero was a terrible one indeed.
“Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.”
Source: The Bronze Horseman
Vol. VII, par. 547
Collected Papers (1931-1958)
Context: Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6
