Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
prayer telegrams
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
abuse liberty possession
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
endure imposter
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other
illusion
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
eye creating expression
On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
goal willing
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
drama vegetables humans
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
art victory moral
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
thinking people doe
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
agony world method
I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
lying character answers
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
alive stills understood
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.
have-faith matter way
No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
want not-sure dread
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.