Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
glory
Glory — once achieved, what is it worth?
country heart men
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
knowing reason ifs
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
To hope is to contradict the future.
pursued
Pursued by our origins…we all are.
ruins should recalls
Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.
suicide world melancholy
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
humanity causes adore
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
trying hunger dies
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
philosophy unique feet
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
self sensations
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
reality excess creation
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
delirium-tremens delirium undone
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
names speak
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.