“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 don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
John Rivers in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Context: You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
“You are guilty every time you use an alibi, saying you don't know how you want to live.”
Original: (it) Sei colpevole ogni volta che usi un alibi, dicendo che non sai come vuoi vivere.
Source: prevale.net
As quoted in Alan Walker, Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (1987) Page 117.
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47