Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
miracle hell moments
We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
frustration sensations
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
interesting mind mets
I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
anchors tangible feels
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
mean existence prove
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
men tasks solitary
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
mind flesh results
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
writing philosopher professors
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
forever needs miserable
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
inspire secret desire
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
kindness vices pity
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
suffering belief appetite
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
fear real heart
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
desire holes eros
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.