Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
country language
One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
country men self
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
country language
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
country heart men
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
country doe language
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
country groups feels
I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person
soul sadism skepticism
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
people normal forget
Normal people have nothing to forget.
speaks
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
fear history result ultimately
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
freedom merely
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
reality silence despair
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
powerful blow brain
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.