Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
time men doe
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
regret desire infinity
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 has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.
destiny thinking mirrors
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. ––The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.
beer parent weight
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.
crazy air sweat
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.
morning giving waiting
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
time
There was a time when time did not yet exist.
time want tough
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
time sleep rivals
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
freedom tyrants too-late
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
history prove
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
memories imagination life-is
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
insomnia kind endure
What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
dying want forgotten
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.