Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
disease rage provoked
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
events bitter sometimes
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
punishment age old-age
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
reality way failing
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
fear fearless
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
ambition addiction drug
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
moving-on names giving
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
men starting-over everyday
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
accidents
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
other-worlds nihilism patents
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
suicide aberration normal
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
jealousy secret aversion
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
dream sleep genius
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
fear inspire dread
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.