Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
death men differences
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.
wise men novelty
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
book writing fifty
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?
talent shameless certain
Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.
writing men misery
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.
knowing luck ignorant
My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.
limits injustice crime
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
trembling enjoy
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
injustice this-society quintessence
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
boredom mind sap
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
despair habit
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
morning night laughing
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.
ideas mind delicacy
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
melancholy ancient symbols
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.