Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
revenge men order
In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
form delicate exploitation
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
matter loser one-thing
Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
book writing dare
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
pain real suffering
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
aliens indifference claims
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
loneliness men suffering
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
love art knowing
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
futility-of-life decision life-is
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
lying believe oneself
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
mixtures utopia rationalism
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
practice risk psychology
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
alive normal
We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
bored unwind ecstasy
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.