Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
facts meaning-of-life reason
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
enemy gates
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
nightmare consciousness
Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
plagiarism
Existing is plagiarism.
men robots defects
Man is a robot with defects.
night insomnia parent
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
god civilization destroyed
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
flesh daggers consciousness
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
ideas harbors chiaroscuro
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
conscious concessions
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
years curiosity one-day
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
self rejection substance
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
god atheism disease
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
lasts spite contradictory
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.