Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
solitude sin purity
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
philosophical love-is rivals
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
genius talent discretion
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
sweat bases
Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
views blur universal
The universal view melts things into a blur.
inferno savior
Society: an inferno of saviors!
epilepsy life-is geometry
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
borders kind misanthropy
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
men alive miserable
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
suffering flow facts
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.
secret teach disguise
Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
hate loving-life men
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
grief grieving use
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
giving-up order giving
What are you waiting for in order to give up?